The Jordanian capital of Amman is one of the best introductions for travellers looking to explore the Middle East. Like many ...

History is full of surprises, and some discoveries challenge everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. The ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.

Archaeologists exploring the site of a planned 32-story office tower announced Thursday that they have unearthed the remains ...

At a cathedral in York, England, expert stonemasons are combining cutting-edge technology with ancient technique to bring ...

An early medieval archeological site in the eastern Netherlands likely hosted cult rituals involving the “devil’s money.” But ...

Could the Pre-Christian and Christian historical sites at Finner in Bundoran, Co Donegal illuminate a connection to the stars ...

Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

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Time and temporality were crucial for medieval Islamic physicians' understanding of sex and gender. In their view, male bodies developed faster in utero, reached puberty, and aged faster. Female ...