At least one of the previous owners met a gruesome death, but the couple have yet to encounter any spirits during their 20 ...

Once a crucial caravan stop on the Silk Road, Khiva is one of Central Asia’s best-preserved medieval settlements. The Uzbek ...

The British Museum 39;s Object in Focus series has published The Asante Ewer that unpacks the history of a fascinating vessel ...

These saints from centuries ago still speak urgently with timeless messages on community, knowledge, creativity, ...

The British Museum has launched 'The Asante Ewer,' a new publication in its Object in Focus series, which meticulously ...

The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show ...

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

The show features more than 50 paintings, manuscripts, textiles and other artworks created in Western Europe between the 13th ...

Curator Earle Havens shares highlights from Johns Hopkins' collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts—and his team's ...

For the first time in history, a British monarch and a pope prayed together in the Sistine Chapel in an event of great ...