A new theory from the University of Bristol suggests that one of history's most famous medieval artifacts may have served a surprising purpose. The Bayeux Tapestry, the iconic 68-meter embroidered ...

New research suggests Bayeux Tapestry may have been designed for a monastery dining hall. A professor argues it could have ...

A study has, for the first time, identified minute traces of broomcorn millet consumption directly from human dental calculus ...

After its account of Jesus’ birth, the Bible is almost entirely silent on his childhood. Yet legends about Jesus’ early years ...

New research by a historian from the University of Bristol offers an intriguing suggestion about one of history's biggest mysteries—the original purpose of the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Contrary to popular belief, illuminated manuscripts were not exclusively made in Europe—one of the most impressive is from ...

The Arabic text along the Virgin Mary’s dress “runs so counter to our clash-of-civilizations mindset about Christianity and ...

On a gray afternoon in November, a group of 19 people took a walk through grassy fields to a remote Bronze Age stone circle ...

Many Christians in the West have a fundamental misunderstanding of the very goal of their faith, according to New Testament ...

At just 19 years old, Shubham Bansal has a résumé that rivals someone in middle age. On top of classes at the University of Washington, where he was accepted at 16 years old, he works in two research ...

The German poet’s dauntingly eclectic accomplishments were founded on a tireless interrogation of how a life should be lived.