It's strange to think an entire town could go missing, but that's exactly what happened to one medieval town which completely fell off the map in Norway.

Ever since the Protestant Revolt in the 16th century, the Catholic Church has been accused of ignoring, opposing, hiding and even destroying the Bible in order to keep it from the people.

We all know about those famous heads on Easter Island, but their origins are still largely a mystery. These large stone ...

Amid national truth and reconciliation processes, Scandinavian churches are taking stock of their past policies toward the ...

This article discusses how racial categories, rooted in social history, are used in records and society. It argues race isn’t ...

“Grandparents are angels in disguise. They provide emotional support to children and act as umbrellas that shield them from ...

While Egyptian kings and queens are the most famous examples of mummification, the practice wasn’t just for pharaohs. It ...

An exterior view of the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the church is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal church in the south and was constructed in 1891. In June 2015 it was ...

Thelmadatter/Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA We are scholars of Jewish history and have been working on the first English translations of two texts from the 16th century ... He used a Latin Bible and ...

But the history of bridesmaids and groomsmen didn’t always reflect a deep emotional connection. It was simply the law. According to the Roman ritual “confarreatio,” 10 witne ...

Tapio Luoma’s words were the latest in a series of apologies through which the former state churches in Scandinavia have sought to reset their relations with the Indigenous population of Sápmi, the ...

Sacro Monte di Varallo are World Heritage chapels built thousands of years ago in the town of Varallo near Milan with over ...