LONDON — The earliest known story of blood libel originates in England in 1150, when Thomas of Monmouth, a Benedictine monk living in the cathedral priory in Norwich, East Anglia, began collecting ...
Nov. 18 (UPI) --A researcher uncovered a fragment from a long-lost 12th-century French poem in the binding of a book at a University of Oxford library in Britain. Tamara Atkin, from Queen Mary ...
There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Bold continues to banish bland. The new taste for pattern has brought with it a resurgence of craft techniques that ...
Wind and Snow in the Fir Pines, Li Shan (mid-12th to early 13th century), China, Jin dynasty, late 12th century Freer Gallery of Art The Shu River, traditionally attributed to Li Gonglin (ca.
A man doing home construction in Germany has discovered a rare boulder with a 12th-century carving — a "picture stone" that may depict a Christian bishop who visited the area around 800 years ago. The ...
Some 900 years ago, a group of Londoners shared a communal toilet designed to fit three users at once. Now, Esther Addley reports for the Guardian, the unusually well-preserved plank of relief is set ...
A glimpse has been given inside a stunning abandoned 12th century castle with huge pillars and creepy bathtub left behind. The French property was founded in 1137 and has a Romanesque-Byzantine facade ...
Archeologists have uncovered the remains of a 12th century bathhouse at a popular bar in the city of Seville, southern Spain. Cerveceria Giralda has been operating in the heart of the city since 1923, ...