The skeleton of Béla, the Duke of Macsó, shows that he was murdered by three assailants in a bloody and coordinated attack.

A new study reveals that modern ideas about the Black Death’s rapid spread across Asia stem from a centuries-old ...

A new study shows how a medieval text was misread as history, shaping how the Black Death’s spread was understood for ...

The man was trapped for several hours after part of the Torre dei Conti, on the edge of the Roman Forum, gave way.

The revelation centers on a text called a "maqāma" - an Arabic literary genre featuring traveling tricksters - written by the poet and historian Ibn al-Wardi in 1348-49 in Aleppo, according to the new ...

Christian monks who withdrew into the wilderness — practiced the strange and beautiful discipline of reminding one another of their mortality: “Brother, remember your death.” This was not meant to be ...

Tragedy struck in the heart of Rome when a worker died after a partial collapse of the medieval tower known as the Torre dei ...

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"I express deep sorrow and condolences, on behalf of myself and the government," Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni said in a ...

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

Romania's Foreign Ministry has mourned the death of a construction worker after the partial collapse of the 13th century ...