His death made John Nepomucene, who was later canonized, the first “ martyr of the confessional ” — one of four priests ...

Archaeologists in Poland made a rare discovery, providing valuable insight into the period of the Crusades. The team of ...

While digging beneath a former ice cream parlor in the historic city center of Gdańsk, Poland, archaeologists recently came ...

The convention is reprising arguments made by the clerical establishment to oppose influential female spiritual leaders centuries ago.

When Louis I, Duke of Anjou in late-14th-century France, commissioned a tapestry illustrating the Book of Revelation, the artist and weavers he hired must have quaked in their boots. That biblical ...

In her presentation, Mary Edwards will discuss the impact of Greco-Roman art on the Italian artist, Altichiero, who painted frescoes in the late 14th century in Padua. Though Altichiero was painting ...

A signet ring from the late 14th century to early 15th century that bears the badge of King Richard II of England. It has the exhibition’s highest asking price: 130,000 pounds, or $167,720. via ...

Used for British coronations since the late 14th century, the Stone of Scone is of unknown origins and age. Legend traces this rectangular slab to Palestine 3,000 years ago, but scientists believe ...

As noted in last month’s article, the second half of the 20th century was a golden age for Jewish Americans.

Opium traces have been discovered in Israel in vessels used in burial rituals by the ancient Canaanites, providing one of the world's earliest evidences of use of the drug.

Many have been extensively studied, but not the Ottoman Turkish documents, products of an occupying bureaucracy that ruled northern Greece from the late 14th century — well before the Byzantine ...

The synagogue was destroyed sometime around the late 14th century, but the Bible was safeguarded by a community member.