Belief in witchcraft intensified during the late Middle Ages, driven by religious authority and social instability. Accusations often targeted marginalized individuals, particularly women and healers.

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered a corridor system from the late Middle Ages in a burial site dating back to the 4th millennium BC. The small central German village of Dornberg in the Harz ...

Ecosystem research examines how human activity reshapes landscapes and environments. Students from Goethe University and the University of Tübingen ...

Chess is widely seen as a great equalizer. Players from every social, racial, and economic class have squared off across the ...

Medieval manuscripts, paintings and chess sets reveal that the so-called "game of kings" defied social structures and racial attitudes by celebrating the intellectual prowess of winners irrespective ...

How the so-called ‘game of kings’ defied racial attitudes by celebrating the intellectual prowess of winners, irrespective of their skin colour.

During the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 5, 2026, Paula White-Cain, senior adviser to the White House Office of Faith, ...

Find out which baby names were the most popular from 1980 to 1989, and how they compare to today. According to the Social ...

Easter falls on April 5, 2026, giving families in Northeast Ohio plenty of time to plan spring celebrations. Communities across Avon, Avon Lake and North Ridgeville have scheduled events throughout ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

More than a week of the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran has dragged in global powers, upended the world's energy and transport sectors, and brought chaos to usually peaceful areas of the region.