The scientific community in the English-speaking world publishes its research findings using technical and scientific English (naturally!). It has its own particular vocabulary. Many words are ...
The Gosfield seal is made of a medieval silver seal bezel surrounding an ancient Roman gemstone. A medieval seal with a blood-red gemstone that was discovered in the U.K. is hiding an ancient secret, ...
Medieval writer Cogitosus described Kildare as a 'vast and metropolitan city' thanks to the presence of the tomb of St Brigid ...
However, new research has revealed that an 11th-century English monk named Eilmer of Malmesbury actually recognized the comet ...
X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...
From Devanagari and Gurmukhi to French and Latin scripts, Scripted Dialogues—A Calligraphic Conversation brings together ...
Following its conquest by the English in 1284, medieval Wales needed a new origin story that established its place in Britain ...
While hugely controversial for many reasons, China’s new “mega-embassy” does have an upside for Londoners – a free museum of the remains of a medieval Abbey under the embassy.
Hot water bottles, electric blankets and the heating on – some of the ways we try and keep ourselves warm in the 21st century, but how did the medieval monks manage it? Historian Professor Giles ...