Now well over 800 years old, the Codex Gigas is one of the most impressive artifacts from the Medieval period of Europe.

However, these sweets did not yet have the typical curved shape of candy cane. At the time, candy canes were simply white in ...

The Book of Kells—an illuminated manuscript of the Christian gospels, the New Testament books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and ...

Does Italian cuisine exist?  Not according to Alberto Grandi, daring food historian and professor of economic history at the University of Parma.  With ...

For its 270th anniversary bash, Vacheron Constantin celebrates time and human invention in ways both fantastic and fabulous.

The Middle Ages often lives in our imagination as a foggy era filled with armored knights, unwashed peasants, gloomy castles, and cruel torture devices. Popular media paints it as a time when people ...

Nov 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new guidelines on Wednesday outlining when inventions created with the help of artificial intelligence can be patented. USPTO Director ...

In medieval times, warfare saw the emergence of remarkable yet often overlooked superweapons. Greek fire, a Byzantine invention, was a mysterious and devastating flammable liquid. Its composition, a ...

In the 13th century, Dominican friar Richard Fishacre boldly challenged established scientific doctrines by proposing that celestial bodies were composed of the same earthly elements, a claim that ...

The medieval period saw the rise of many new inventions all around the world. Emerging out of the so-called Dark Ages, many prominent scholars and learned minds came up with new inventions to make 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 ...