Medieval knights are one of those things where the fiction outweighs the facts. Knights served as a part of the aristocracy for most of Europe, far from popular films’ hallowed heroism or comedic ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A university professor from Allentown, inspired by a centuries-old tale out of Iceland, took his yearly music video project to epic proportions. It's not unusual for Barry Atticks to ...

A viral story claims medieval European women poisoned husbands daily, giving an antidote at night. Historians say this practice never happened. Medieval Europe lacked the science for such precise ...

Bangor University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The doodles found in the margins of very old manuscripts are often just as interesting as the content of the manuscripts ...

Warnings about artificial intelligence often sound apocalyptic, yet the basic fears are as old as written stories about clever machines. From Greek poets imagining bronze guardians to medieval legends ...

Archaeologists recently explored a long-lost Silk Road city at the bottom of a lake, uncovering a trove of artifacts and a medieval cemetery. Researchers have compiled "murder maps" of London, Oxford, ...

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