A long-standing myth about medieval history is that the Middle Ages were intellectually dark. Science supposedly took a hiatus between the demise of Rome and the rise of Copernican astronomy and ...

“Residents frustrated at ‘medieval’ cellphone coverage in the Far North,” ran the headline on a New Zealand news website. Communities on the shores of the Pacific Ocean were fed up with constant poor ...

This week, I got the chance to visit two special exhibits: the Getty Museum has an exhibit on the alchemy of color and the Getty Research Institute has one on art depicting alchemy. From antiquity to ...

A 14th-century astrolabe, one of the important instruments of medieval science (Photo by Hasan Esen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) This is a review I’ve been sitting on for a while, because I’ve ...

A nearly intact medieval shipwreck has been hauled from the frigid waters of a Dutch river. The boat was likely deliberately sunk by maritime engineers more than 600 years ago in an effort to alter ...

TO KINETIC ENERGY IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. CATAPULTS ARE A BATTLE WEAPON DATING BACK TO MEDIEVAL TIMES, AND NOW THAT SAME CONCEPT SHAPES OUR DAY TO DAY LIVES. FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST MARQUISE MEDA ...

The idea that there's no need to worry about human-induced global warming because the world's climate in medieval time was at least as warm as today's is flawed, according to a recent ...

Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green "children of Woolpit", who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk and ...