Knights may have worn shining armor, but most men went to war dressed for hardship, not glory. The 15th-century billman was ...

But the episode reveals something deeper: the uniquely influential position of Armenian networks within Poland. *** The ...

The name Matagorda usually lands on a map, not a ship’s stern, but in World War II it did both. USS Matagorda took its name from Matagorda Bay and went ...

Singapore was a thriving trading hub hundreds of years before popular narratives depicted it as a quiet fishing village, according to a study of the cargo of a centuries-old shipwreck. Sometime during ...

The building, in East Grinstead, had been home to Broadleys, a men’s clothing shop, since 1896, before the store announced ...

I was a rabbi before I became a lawyer, which informs a lot of my worldview,” the National Jewish Advocacy Center CEO told ...

In a remarkable find of ancient military technology, a team of cantonal archaeologists in Kyburg, Switzerland, has unearthed a completely preserved armored gauntlet dating back to the 14th century.

At the Hispanic Society’s “Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550–1700,” a few daring silhouettes show how kings, clergy, and society itself tried—and failed—to police the body. Unknown Spanish ...

New interdisciplinary evidence shows how a mid-14th-century volcanic cooling reshaped Mediterranean food security, redirected grain ships from the Black Sea, and inadvertently opened the door to one ...

An erupting volcano may have kicked off a chain of events that led to the swift dance of the Black Plague across Europe in the 14th century, in a pandemic that killed tens of millions of people. New ...

GODALMING, England, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- What in the world was happening in the 14th century? Violence, uprisings, power struggles, wars, climate change, an epidemic, extensive trade networks ...

Part of this month’s Important Judaica sale, the medieval work is expected to fetch between $1.5 and $2.5 million. A rare, 14th-century handwritten Hebrew Bible from Spain will hit the auction block ...