A new study reveals that medieval chess was a powerful vehicle for promoting racial harmony. While contemporary medieval art often depicted non-white individuals in extreme roles, representations of ...

SEATTLE — The Guardians have retired the championship belt that has been awarded to the star of the game since former ...

Medieval Ibiza was far from a quiet Mediterranean backwater. New DNA evidence shows that the island was part of a dynamic ...

If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” ...

Medieval manuscripts, paintings and chess sets reveal that the so-called "game of kings" defied social structures and racial ...

When modern readers look at medieval maps, the instinct is to smile at the sea creatures and assume cartographers were just ...

Ancient DNA from a medieval burial inside a Neolithic monument reveals unexpected ancestry links and hints that the site’s ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world. In 2014 archaeologists ...

In wine there is truth,” to cite a proverb quoted by Pliny the Elder—truth about humans, that is. That means that winemakers ...

A hidden section of medieval wall painting, not seen for hundreds of years, is giving clues to the grand past of Durham ...

Poverty was a visible part of daily life in medieval Europe, where thousands of people relied on charity to survive. Many individuals who were elderly, disabled, or widowed depended on religious ...