In the past British people believed hedgehogs could cause harm and damage livestock, and even that witches could transform ...

Hidden for six centuries, the largest known medieval cargo ship, known as a cog, has been uncovered off the coast of ...

“The Naibbe cipher is my attempt to find a way to encode something like Latin by hand as text that partially mimics the ...

Szyk (1894-1951) was born in Łódź and trained as an artist in Kraków and Paris, absorbing medieval illumination, caricature ...

WHILE Ryanair has been axing flights across Europe for months, there are some destinations where the airline is upping its ...

Nabil Ali celebrates the long legacy of botanical pigments and the craft traditions that used them in a new book.

Through miniature paintings, towering sculpture and digital animation, artist Shahzia Sikander delves into feminism, religion ...

An ancient Celtic coin discovered in a field in northeast England could fetch over $5,000. A metal detectorist in Lelley, ...

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

John Goodall looks at an ambitious restoration project to the choir and cloister of Exeter Cathedral, which was completed in ...