Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the ...

Let's go back to the Middle Ages to look at some dishes people still enjoy today. Find out if one of your favorite meals is ...

A person digging for fishing worms near a Swedish summer cottage recently discovered a medieval silver hoard containing up to ...

It’s hard being a teenager. Coping with raging hormones, insecurities, and acne while trying to figure out just who you are ...

Detail from a manuscript made for King Lebna Dengel, circa 1520, Tädbabä Maryam Monastery, Ethiopia. Photograph by Diana Spencer, courtesy of the DEEDS Project In early 2020, just as the scope and ...

Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on wildlife, science and the environment. Robyn joined Newsweek in 2022 having previously worked at environmental ...

Why were the Middle Ages dark? Isn't it true that this epoch conjures up ominous images of superstition and witch-hunting? Burning pyres and plague doctors hurrying strangely muffled along dark ...

When we dismiss the Middle Ages as a dark, regrettable period, we aren't acknowledging what was going on outside Europe. While Europe was a moldering cultural backwater, the Arab world was ...

The question of why, at the turn of the 20th century, modern art flourished in Europe has long been one of art history’s most intriguing. Was it exposure to non-Western influences? The advent of the ...

When we picture the Middle Ages, we often imagine knights, castles, and bustling marketplaces, not cozy homes filled with ...