Matthew Seaver from the National Museum of Ireland tells us why the new Words on the Wave exhibition at the NMI is an absolutely must-see for everyone this summer.

The Greek Foreign Minister visits his counterpart in Cairo to express his discontent over the ruling that grants Egypt the ...

The 14th-century Shem Tov Bible is now being exhibited at the National Library of Israel, a year after a family bought it for ...

A history buff with a metal detector recently led archaeologists to the site of a medieval monastery – all thanks to a strange symbol spotted on an old map. Arkeologerna, an archaeological ...

It dates back to the 8th century and contains some of the oldest known medieval ... library and an essential part of Oxford University. It dates back to the 7th century and it includes the epic of ...

The imposing medieval battlements around the hilltop town just south of the city of Rome harken back to the internecine warfare common between the great Italian cities in those times. Grottaferrata ...

Credit: Cambridge, University Library, Creative Commons ... to well-preserved pieces of work that inspired many scholars of the late middle ages and the early modern era. Monasteries across the ...

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

At the world’s oldest monastery ... an invisible library that may hold as-yet-unknown biblical texts, or more manuscripts that illuminate medieval monastic life in this remote outpost of ...