This auction represents a rare opportunity to acquire pieces that embody the history of humanity itself. Held live at The Court House, 363 Main Road, Harwich, Essex, with worldwide online bidding ...
Most of Richard Donner’s Timeline (Paramount) takes place in 1357, but this isn’t a movie of hoary Sherwood Forest clichés. It manages, through sheer artistic force, to stoop below cliché—to seem both ...
Russian archaeologists say they have pinpointed a long-lost medieval burial ground, turning a patch of ordinary landscape ...
Explore the controversial Phantom Time Hypothesis, which claims we are actually living in the year 1726 and questions the ...
Today, the Middle Ages are a sort of paradox; the myth of the “Dark Ages,” which survives quite ably in popular culture, allows space for it to be whatever the popular imagination wants. When people ...
Detail from a manuscript made for King Lebna Dengel, circa 1520, Tädbabä Maryam Monastery, Ethiopia. Photograph by Diana Spencer, courtesy of the DEEDS Project In early 2020, just as the scope and ...
In the picturesque town of Morlaix in northwestern France, archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery that has opened a ...
In some ways, the subject of the Getty Center’s exhibition “Play and Pastimes in the Middle Ages” might seem a bit peculiar. Play and pastimes in the world of the Black Death? In towns where sewage ...