The medieval round has inspired many compositions including The Mouse Organ Song in the 70s TV show.

A new study reveals that medieval chess was a powerful vehicle for promoting racial harmony. While contemporary medieval art often depicted non-white individuals in extreme roles, representations of ...

Chess is widely seen as a great equalizer. Players from every social, racial, and economic class have squared off across the ...

The newly recovered 1000-year-old page from the Archimedes palimpsest. Credit: Blois, Musée des Beaux-Arts / IRHT-CNRS. For ...

A medieval music manuscript has returned to Reading. On display from March 10 to May 9, the manuscript can be seen at Reading Museum, marking its first return to the town since the dissolution of ...

Canines’ renowned loyalty was a natural representation of the “loyal transmission of the divine mandate from generation to ...

As such, the palimpsest hosts a number of 10th century treatises by the Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse (though the original texts would have been centuries older). Notably, ...

Party like people did in the Middle Ages when a specialist trio of musicians and dancers bring a unique performance to a medieval barn in north Derbyshire.

The Rothschild Vienna Mahzor was created in 1415 by a medieval scribe who identified himself as Moses, son of Menachem. Sotheby's In the late 1930s, the Nazis stole a 15th-century Jewish prayer book ...

When modern readers look at medieval maps, the instinct is to smile at the sea creatures and assume cartographers were just ...

With a bowl cut of terrifying precision and a vow that defies 14th century gender roles, can 1348 Ex Voto beat Kingdom Come: Deliverance at its own game?

There has never been a singular Christian perspective on how religion, power and politics ought to relate to each other – not even in medieval ‘Christendom.’ ...