After a long fast, Medieval Christendom typically celebrated the holiday with many days of raucous festivities ...

Continental Europe is home to four microstates with populations of between 30,000 and 80,000 people: Andorra, on the border ...

Thanks to the arrival of spices in Europe via the east, Medieval people had a wide variety of spices in their cabinet. Here's ...

The prison was left as rubble with the rest of the city during the “Sicilian Pompeii” in 1693, researchers said.

During excavations at Makurian Ghazali, an ancient site in modern-day Sudan, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a walled ...

From discovering the island’s ancient Nuragic civilization to sampling famed red wines and pecorino cheeses, here are some of ...

There’s a great deal to gain by setting aside the Romantic approach, brilliant and powerful as its insights are. “Medieval people” (for they were pretty diverse) thought and wrote about these ...

The Corridoio Vasariano, or Vasari Corridor, was built as a secret pathway connecting Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Pitti via ...

Ganja is a small but incredibly charming town in Sicily, which in 2014 was recognized as "the most beautiful small town in ...

The essence of the Christmas celebration for most of the neighborhood would be the observance of la Vigilia on Christmas Eve.

Yet here sits a thriving abbey with its youthful monks, drawing pilgrims while its Benedictines pray the ancient Latin of the ...