"The vivid portrayals in The Travels of Marco Polo are an authentic 'journey of knowledge', in which Marco Polo depicts ...

There are San Andreas faults in many places. They happen where two rigid continental masses slide past each other at fairly rapid pace. The San Andreas fault separates (‘connect’ would be the ...

The authorities in Monemvasia, founded in the sixth century, say people with limited mobility need access to the town’s peak.

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: ...

Photo by Göran Bengtsson Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern ... Bengtsson had discovered a medieval monastery likely dating back to the ...

After conquering Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans began reshaping the city into their imperial capital while expanding further into Europe. This video traces the aftermath of the conquest ...

But medieval texts suggest that he spared Rome ... At the time, the relationship between Rome and Constantinople was strained. After Emperor Constantine had shifted the authority of the Roman ...

There are plenty of great medieval RPGs out there right now, from fresh releases like Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 to stalwarts such as Skyrim, and there are plenty more on the horizon as well.

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in England.

A 600-year-old brass seal found in a farmer’s field features an image of St. Catherine of Alexandria. The depiction is chock ...

Experts flash-froze the child’s grave to preserve and lift it out of the ground in one piece, according to the release. Photo by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. After ...