Researchers believe the ring may have adorned a high-ranking ecclesiastical official, symbolizing deep spiritual meanings and ...

Trade routes stitching places of production to places of commerce have popped up ... During the Middle Ages, this route became vital for providing salt for the fishing fleets that left ...

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

First entry into Anatolia, an important city on the Silk Road trade route in the Middle Ages. (Credit: Mazur Travel/Shutterstock) The Han Chinese court welcomed Western trade for one of the first ...

Yet, the European Middle Ages — a period spanning more than 1,000 years — was much richer (and weirder) than even some of the best fiction or political spin. Comments. Newsletter Daily.

These were the oil fields of the middle ages.” The Silk Road was not just one, but many trade routes through Central Asia, as shown on this large wall map adorning a restaurant near Qongirot ...

In the real-time strategy game Grand Ages: Medieval, lead your people and advance through the decades by utilizing construction, research, expansion and conquest in an area extending from ...

The routes of slave trade in Eastern Europe in the medieval and pre-modern period extended all the way to the Caspian Sea and Central Asia. A recent study suggests that persons captured during ...

A drawing of an Australasian cockatoo by a Roman Emperor has revealed trade routes between Southeast Asia and Europe were flourishing around 250 years earlier than previously thought, according to ...

French fishermen disrupt UK trade routes over ... Calais is the shortest sea route between Britain and the EU and has been one of Britain’s main arteries for European trade since the Middle Ages.