An Andalusi tent taken from the campsite of the Almohad caliph Muhammad al-Nāsir was sent to Pope Innocent III after 1212 ...

After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious ...

While in the Old Town of Tallinn, every art and history lover should visit the Niguliste Museum, which displays the best of ...

Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts. I n the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have ...

The new archives tours, led by college archivist Suzanne Foster, provide a rare opportunity to view two medieval rooms that house the ...

A birthday lunch led me to the village of Long Melford, a quintessentially English idyll that I can't wait to revisit ...

The mural was seen as so revolutionary that it was covered by a false wall only to be rediscovered and exhumed in 1973.