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 ...

When modern readers look at medieval maps, the instinct is to smile at the sea creatures and assume cartographers were just ...

Wish you could step into a Studio Ghibli movie? Misty forests, fairy-tale villages, and lantern-lit towns bring the magic to ...

During the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 5, 2026, Paula White-Cain, senior adviser to the White House Office of Faith, introduced President Donald Trump as “the greatest champion of faith ...

If you’ve ever taken a sip of an Italian wine and thought, why does this taste a little like the sea? you’re not imagining it. Across Italy, from island vineyards battered by Mediterranean winds to ...

Throughout the Middle Ages, cities emerged as powerful centers of trade, politics, religion and culture across Europe, Asia ...

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.

There are numerous examples in texts of Irish people showing a sense of belonging to a community defined in relation to Europe ...

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The discovery was made in Reinstedt and may previously have served as shelters, pagan tombs or places of symbolic rituals. The Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Monument Conservation and Archaeology (LDA ...