A groundbreaking discovery in southern Arizona has unveiled the oldest known firearm in the continental United States. A bronze wall…
A Bronze Age sword, ritually bent before being deposited as an offering, has been unearthed in Værebro Ådal by a…
Samplers, pieces of embroidery made to practise or demonstrate needlework stitches, were an important part of girls’ education for centuries.…
Thanksgiving observances predate the feast of the year 1621 shared by the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony…
The sky in the northern hemisphere had been darkened, the winters unusually harsh, and the summers barely arriving for decades…
A historical document composed by King Otto I, better known as Otto the Great, to his English queen has been…
Thanksgiving, celebrated annually in the United States, is a time-honored tradition marked by a feast that brings together family and…
When, in 1816, John Keats began reading an Elizabethan translation of Homer, he became so enthralled that he stayed up…
A sustained campaign of attacks blazed across the Welsh counties of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire from 1839. Tenant-farmers and labourers,…
Appearing in 1482, the Libro de la ventura – or Book of Fortune – became a staple of Renaissance parties.…