The move is being watched closely by the Australian government, which is wary of how criminal groups and the Chinese government could exploit the bank's presence in PNG. The Bank of China is ...
A new analysis indicates the human remains found in a well in Norway are from a 1197 raid described in a royal history. A new scientific examination of 800-year-old human remains in Norway ...
The etchings found in the centuries-old Gainsborough Old Hall are likelier to be medieval protective symbols than signs of the supernatural, experts say.Credit...English Heritage Supported by By ...
A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen Medieval women’s lives were ...
The Sverris saga, a quasi-fictional historical account from the end of the 12th century CE, recaps the reign of the medieval Norwegian king Sverre Sigurdsson. One of the best-known passages ...
Diane Watt has received funding from the AHRC, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. The British Library’s breathtaking new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, brings to life the ...
“Sure enough, he’s living on a medieval citadel,” Frachetti tells Scientific American. This second site—Tugunbulak—featured similar mounds. “We’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this place is ...
A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the ...
An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network of ancient trade routes that connected ...
Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...