Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...

Understanding what each color meant reveals the hidden code that shaped medieval clothing, class structure, and everyday life.

Glass beads, rhinestones, sequins, medallions, and more embellish artworks exploring the relationship between past and ...

A Swedish fisherman digging for bait struck something far more valuable—an ancient trove buried for over 800 years. What experts uncovered inside the soil is rewriting medieval history and revealing a ...

The Vatican’s eco-friendly farm, recently inaugurated by the first ever Augustinian pope, echoes his order’s forgotten early ...

David Lowery's excellent and underrated The Green Knight (which is a stealth Christmas movie) is now streaming for free on ...

The Arabic text along the Virgin Mary’s dress “runs so counter to our clash-of-civilizations mindset about Christianity and ...