These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

Rory McIlroy must have choked on his scrambled eggs when he discovered how his tax affairs had torpedoed a knighthood.

"I rang my son and said, 'You need to come – I've found a sword and there's a hand on the end of it!'" By the time his son, ...

When it comes to swords, Fan Shisan’s no slouch. An influencer from China’s Sichuan Province, his short-form video content is swarming with handcrafted blades — sometimes literally. Case in point, Fan ...

In the Vatican Apostolic Library rests one of its most treasured possessions: the “Gospel of Qaraqosh,” a richly illuminated Syriac manuscript dating back to the 13th century. Catalogued as “Vat. Syr.

Experts at the National Library of Norway believe the liturgical songbook was made by a local artisan around A.D. 1200. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

More than 700 years ago, a Hungarian duke was murdered in a brutal and very bloody head-on attack in a convent. Now, researchers studying a skeleton excavated in Budapest have confirmed it belonged to ...

In the 13th century, thousands in France were investigated, massacred, or even burned at the stake by the Catholic Church. THE TWO CHURCHESCathars (left) perform the consolamentum (Cathar baptism) ...

The Toyota Century has long stood as Japan’s quiet symbol of prestige, but its name is about to carry even greater weight. Toyota is preparing to give its most revered nameplate an entirely new ...

I was a little late, but I finally got into Death Stranding earlier this year. Reader, it seized me and wouldn't let go. Not because I had any idea what was going on (I didn't), but because I ...

Archaeologists in Spain recently published findings revealing the remarkable contents of bearded vultures' nests – including traces of the Middle Ages. The results, published in the journal Ecology on ...

The bearded vulture, a large bird of prey with an unusual diet consisting primarily of bones, has long fascinated ornithologists. But now, a new study has shown why the bone-eating birds could be even ...