Next Thursday, much of America will be focused on candy, costumes and lawn decorations. Are you aware that Oct. 31 is also ...

“Chainmail is something that is alluring to us because it takes the concept of a curtain, which is historically soft, and ...

A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, ...

Translated by EG Gardner in 1911, and published in Medieval Ghost Stories, by Andrew Joynes A priest is visiting a hot spring ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce ...

Where did Halloween come from and how did it end up like this? The real history of Halloween is far more complicated than ...

Here, we look at some of the most iconic chairs of all time–each one playing a part in how we connect, think, and unwind.

A team of metal detectorists struck gold, or very close to it when they discovered a hoard of silver coins dating back to ...

We have teamed up with Globally Mine, an independent travel agent, to curate a collection of five exceptional destinations.

In Old English, the word man was a general word for people. The word for man as in male was wer. Wer really only survives in ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...

Chad Wolf, Trump’s Homeland Security secretary and now executive director of America First Policy Institute, pointed out the ...