The Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote about bored teens: “Only in solitude could those youths develop the ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the days before lighthouses, some coastal communities used “fire beacons”—elevated structures ...

A 12th-century translation error kicked off a 700-year trade in mummies, depopulating the tombs of Egypt to populate European apothecaries.

In medieval bestiaries, unicorns were said to be fierce, wild creatures. They were very real but also hidden. Only people ...

Hidden in the rolling hills of Huntingdon County lies a park that’s mastered the art of flying under the radar while ...

Black Garden Studios, the indie developer behind the hand-drawn pixel art title Necrofugitive ... collapsing under famine, ...

The Last Supper, the Duomo, soccer, fashion, food, wine and shopping are some of the amazing things to do in Milan at night.

Medieval people would have interacted with the embroidered players, giving them voice and enabling them to join the ...

The Bayeux Tapestry, a legendary medieval artwork depicting the 1066 Norman Conquest, is set to be displayed in the U.K. for the first time in nearly 1,000 years.

Librarians at a medieval abbey in Hungary are battling a beetle infestation that is threatening its ancient book collection.