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 ...
A new study shows how a medieval text was misread as history, shaping how the Black Death’s spread was understood for ...
In 1272 CE, a Hungarian duke was murdered in cold blood. Details surrounding the grisly killing of the 13th century Hungarian ...
Romania's Foreign Ministry has mourned the death of a construction worker after the partial collapse of the 13th century ...
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 ...
C enturies before questionable COVID-19 information began rippling through social media, another inaccurate account of ...
The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...
"I express deep sorrow and condolences, on behalf of myself and the government," Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni said in a ...
When a royal vessel sank of the coast of Normandy in 1120, it not only claimed hundreds of lives but also set off a ...
Firefighters late Monday finally managed to extract a worker from beneath rubble inside a medieval tower that partially ...
Emeric, son of Hungary’s first Christian king, St. Stephen, was born around A.D. 1000. His name is translated as Imre in ...
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