Karen Wigen is Frances and Charles Field Professor in History at Stanford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, she discusses th ...

Winter is a magical time for a domestic or European break by train, bus or boat. Christmas markets and festivals sparkle in ...

West Chester University’s Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology is inviting visitors to view comics in a new light with its ...

The Lisska Center for Intellectual Engagement will host a roundtable discussion on time travel at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 5.

Bronze Age traders crossing Gujarat stopped at well-organised roadside facilities that offered shelter, food, security and ...

Medieval Europeans once considered Ujjain, in present-day Madhya Pradesh, the centre of the world for their astronomical ...

Brandeis University recently announced a $25 million investment to “ reinvent” its liberal arts education and make it more workforce-oriented. Ask Brandeis University President Arthur Levine why the ...

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures. The fictional tale of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which she gets ...

We were suffering from Stage IV cabin fever, so I suggested a trip down to the new John Glenn open-air observatory, located somewhere in Hocking County and we are lucky to have found the place on the ...

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 ...

“SWAN is only observable in early evenings — right after the sky has become dark,” wrote Quanzhi Ye, associate research scientist in the department of astronomy at the University of Maryland, in an ...

I recently had the privilege to build the Medieval Horse Knight Castle set. It's a fairly new release that is joined by only a few other sets aimed at early Renaissance times—including this full-on ...