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 ...

Archaeologists made a shocking discovery in a sixth-century copper bucket found several ... Bucket,” specialists working with the York Archaeological Trust conducted a micro-excavation on ...

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

In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues.

The Welikia Project, made by ecologists at the New York Botanical Garden, uncovers all the flora and fauna that thrived in ...

Tara is popularly worshipped in the Mahayana and Vajrayana sects of Buddhism, and is considered a saviour who bestows longevity and good health on her followers.

William Henry Jackson and Seneca Ray Stoddard. William Henry Jackson was an American painter, photographer, and explorer ...

The fragments of the sixth century Byzantine bucket have fascinated ... rays at the University of Bradford before being sent to the York Archaeological Trust for a deeper analysis in November.

A bizarre theory (and a gory surgery) in fin-de-siècle Vienna help us get a grip on how science and medicine actually work ...

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

By the late 6th century BCE, the Achaemenid Empire sought ... though their linguistic and cultural identities were largely subsumed. Above: Map of Ancient Scythia. Source: Wikipedia Yet the ...

How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of ...