From Britain’s medieval buildings to western pop and contemporary art, these creations showcase our interwoven stories, says former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams ...

The Bridge Between East and West. A poet and dramatist who published his early work before World War I, Miroslav Krleza is the leading writer of Croatia and a man of enormous infl ...

At the center of Athens in Plaka, the Benizelos Mansion, or the House of Agia Philothei, is the oldest house in the Greek ...

Across the world’s continental shelves, scientists are racing to reconstruct an ancient landscape that once stretched where ...

While everyone’s busy fighting over parking spots in Chicago or arguing about the correct pronunciation of “Illinois” (it’s silent, people), there’s an actual honest-to-goodness castle sitting in ...

US historian of Czech heritage Cynthia Paces is the author of Prague: The Heart of Europe, which traces the city’s history ...

There’s something almost sacred about holding a book that has survived centuries, influenced millions, and shaped how we ...

That’s exactly what happens when you first lay eyes on the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. It’s not every day you find a six-story concrete castle rising from the landscape of a charming ...

The best location for a monastery was one that was close to water and wood. Many monastic chroniclers mention this.

Archaeologists excavating a mysterious medieval cemetery in Wales have uncovered compelling evidence that the burial ground was part of an early female religious community. The discovery of a possible ...

The combination of filigree and granulation techniques arrived in Norway during the early Middle Ages from the Byzantine Empire, partly via Carolingian goldsmithing traditions. The Carolingian period, ...