the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map reveals how its makers imagined the world from ...

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male ...

Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former ...

Archaeologists have located Tharais, a lost Byzantine city featured on the 6th-century Madaba Mosaic Map in Jordan. The ...

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Unschooled in Hindu art, I didn’t know that I was contemplating a pichwai (from the Sanskrit for “back” and “hanging”), a ...

The patty melt deserves particular praise – perfectly grilled rye bread, a well-seasoned beef patty, melted Swiss cheese, and grilled onions combining into a sandwich that could make a fast-food chain ...

On the eve of anniversaries of the Declaration and the Battle of Gettysburg, it’s time to consider connections between the wars in York County.

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

Paul Skenes is numbingly consistent. With another gem Sunday against the Philadelphia Phillies (no earned runs in 7 2/3 innings), the Pittsburgh Pirates ace has ...

Operating venues like The Downs has proved challenging amid increasingly high competition for the "gambling dollar" in the ...