Researchers say a carefully prepared ergot fungus-based drink may explain the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greece.

OXFORD—The great English philosopher Thomas Hobbes described the modern state (Civitas) as nothing but an “artificial man,” whose soul is derived from ”sovereignty” (authority derived from either the ...

For the first time in roughly six centuries, London’s skies may again carry the long, steady wings of the white stork. These large birds once lived alongside people, nesting on rooftops and feeding in ...

Emerging in the late Ottoman era, Jewish scholars studied a vast array of works by medieval Arab scholars to establish a body ...

Scotland’s influence reaches worldwide, with towns across the world keeping strong cultural, historical, and culinary ties.

Kingara Kavyam, an animated short film that merges folklore and magical realism, creatively reimagines a rooted, culture-specific story of Kappiri and Kunjala to narrate a story of feudalism, ...

The post Why tourism is booming in this small European country appeared first on Idyllic Pursuit. This post written by Kathy ...

You see the photos. Whitewashed buildings tumbling down cliff edges into impossibly blue waters. Canals lined with medieval architecture. Skylines so futuristic they look computer generated. These ...

And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...

Medieval Christians in Denmark showed off their wealth in death by buying prestigious graves: the closer to the church, the ...

Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

Europe has never been short on spectacle. Yet beyond the headline cities and endlessly recycled itineraries lies a quieter, deeper continent; one that’s best encountered through patience and a ...