A new study reveals that modern ideas about the Black Death’s rapid spread across Asia stem from a centuries-old ...

The revelation centers on a text called a "maqāma" - an Arabic literary genre featuring traveling tricksters - written by the poet and historian Ibn al-Wardi in 1348-49 in Aleppo, according to the new ...

C enturies before questionable COVID-19 information began rippling through social media, another inaccurate account of ...

A new study shows how a medieval text was misread as history, shaping how the Black Death’s spread was understood for ...

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

A worker who had been trapped for 11 hours in the partial collapse of a medieval tower in the heart of Rome has died after ...

Guides to life are a dime a dozen these days. From self-help books to lifestyle magazines, living well has become an obsession of society. But this wasn’t always the case. Hundreds of years ago, in ...

When a royal vessel sank of the coast of Normandy in 1120, it not only claimed hundreds of lives but also set off a ...

"I express deep sorrow and condolences, on behalf of myself and the government," Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni said in a ...

Romania's Foreign Ministry has mourned the death of a construction worker after the partial collapse of the 13th century ...

Tragedy struck in the heart of Rome when a worker died after a partial collapse of the medieval tower known as the Torre dei ...