A new analysis of a skeleton found in a Budapest monastery has revealed the gruesome details of a 13th-century Hungarian duke ...

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 ...

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 Conti. The collapse occurred on November 3rd, 2025 during renovation work ...

Historians have traced myths about the Black Death’s rapid journey across Asia to one 14th-century poem by Ibn al-Wardi. His ...

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