The role of the ultra-wealthy has morphed from one of shared social responsibility and patronage to the freewheeling ...

The time has come to dispel these medieval myths, rumors, and mysteries. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down ...

Unearthed at Huqoq, the artifact may represent the missing link between 1,300-year-old Merovingian rings and popular medieval ...

Often seen as a cute, kitschy piece of German barware, the beer stein's signature look once served a very practical purpose.

Julia Baird’s retelling of the starfish story is a timely reminder that we can make a difference to this world.

The Black Death (1347-51) devastated European society. Writing four decades after the event, the English monk and chronicler, Thomas Walsingham, remarked that “so much wretchedness followed ...

Growing up, many of us hear about historical events that sound real, so we take them as fact. Yet, in … Continue reading ...

According to medieval historian Michael McCormick ... sailors were either dead or dying from a mysterious disease. From there, the Black Death spread across an ill-prepared Europe causing fear and ...

On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Europe that emerged was traumatized but more dynamic than ever, set on a slow path of philosophical, scientific and geographic discovery that eventually spread..