When most people think about Transylvania it conjures the image of Dracula and the world dreamed up in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel - a world of gothic castles, shapeshifting bats, and vampires. Some ...

Less than 40 copies of the Arthurian story Suite Vulgate du Merlin are known to exist. One was just found, binding together ...

"The text is written in Old French, the language of the court and aristocracy in medieval England following ... there arrived the most handsome man ever seen in Christian lands," the passage ...

Once on the civil war's front line, the medieval souk, the major Syrian city's former bustling heart, is now largely ...

“In many respects the Vikings were the medieval equivalent of organized crime ... indicates the victims came from a cold region (one man from inside the Arctic Circle).

A LinkedIn post by Shashank Sharma highlights how middle-class Indian families prioritize safety, obedience, and employment over health. The focus is on saving money and protecting reputation ...

Lyle and Erik Menendez continue to serve life sentences in prison for the brutal murders of their parents on August 20, 1989. Thirty-five years later, the case of the Menendez brothers has ...

U.S. strikes on Yemen's Ras Isa fuel terminal on the Red Sea coast have killed at least 74 people in the deadliest attack since the U.S. started its bombing campaign against the Houthis last year ...

The film “1-800-ON-HER-OWN” follows the fiercely independent artist as she tries a career first: writing a song with another artist. By Alissa Wilkinson This deliciously nasty reworking of the ...

Clare Bucknell and Thomas Jones introduce their new Close Readings series, Novel Approaches. Joined by a variety of contemporary novelists and critics, they'll be exploring a dozen 19th-century ...