The setting of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit was ancient, but did it have a prehistoric period like ...

Countless authors through the years set out to prove she existed, publishing articles and books on the subject, and even creating historical timelines ... that the Middle Ages didn’t exist.

Dr. Rory Naismith, professor of early medieval English history at University of Cambridge, won for his book “Making Money in ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...

Somewhere in a dimension we neglected to envision, a knight draws a plasma sword under a starry sky. Chrome dragons fly around a neon castle floating in low orbit. Bards sing techno-ballads as ...

This week, explore a medieval manuscript, spy an underwater volcano ready to erupt off the US West Coast, encounter T. rex’s ancestor, and more.

Understanding the acceleration of human impacts on the environment is key to addressing the complex planetary and social challenges of the Anthropocene. But even as the inter-relatedness of ...

When library archivists at the University of Cambridge in England inspected the cover of a 16th century property record, they realized it was made of pages repurposed from a medieval manuscript.

While artists at the Bronx Museum engage with area communities and ecosystems, others at MoMA PS1 examine mass waste and excess, and the Morgan Library & Museum shows us how medieval Europe ...

Now, a separate new discovery adds weight to the old adage about not judging a book by its cover ... it was made of pages repurposed from a medieval manuscript. Known as the “Suite Vulgate ...

Now, a separate new discovery adds weight to the old adage about not judging a book by its cover ... they realized it was made of pages repurposed from a medieval manuscript. Known as the “Suite ...