An exhibition called "Paws on Parchment" tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from ...

The book is Emendatio vitae —The Emending of Life—written in the 14th century by Richard Rolle, a Yorkshire hermit and mystic ...

An exhibition at the Walters Art Musuem traces the appearences of cats in medieval manuscripts, from Europe, Asia, and the ...

“The Naibbe cipher is my attempt to find a way to encode something like Latin by hand as text that partially mimics the ...

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Allan MacDonald received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for pioneering work that ...

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.

Medieval hunting was violent, dangerous, and deeply political. Nobles hunted as a form of military training, learning ...

Conspiracy theories thrived in the Middle Ages as tools of fear, control, and political survival. Queens were accused of ...

With no dragons and no warring dynasties, HBO’s “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is the first test of whether the “Thrones” ...

The text is a mysterious medieval marvel. A new book claims to know its true origin. A page from the Book of Kells, ninth century illuminated manuscript. This page shows the Virgin and child, an ...

The bloody trailer offers the first footage of the 'Game of Thrones' stars reuniting in the film, which is set in medieval ...