The Trebuchet was invented by Mariano Taccola, "the Sienese Archimedes." This war machine was invented during the Middle Ages (around 1400 AD) in order to destroy the great walls of the enemy palaces.

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery. Several ...

Throughout history, women who challenged expectations were labeled as "witches" and persecuted, but now they’re turning that ...

The new study, published in The Historical Journal, shows that veterans of the Napoleonic wars founded many of Britain’s ...

More than 200 volunteers spent months hand stitching the 6,000 strong poppies which now adorn the side of St Peter’s Church in Inkberrow.

After centuries of neglect, Middleton was restored to partial glory in the mid-19th century when it was bought by Sir Lewis ...

These are made from pewter and have been dated from the 1400s. The end of the spoon shows a woman in an ornate horned headdress. The use of pewter was common in the Middle Ages, and was popular ...

As construction of a pipeline nears, an effort to preserve an Indigenous trail in Canada tests whether heritage management can keep up with advances in archaeology.

Even the samurai's understanding of art and poetry can be traced to stories of the Gempei War. As infighting increased through the following century ... States period (c. 15th to early 17th ...

Claymore Castings has a couple of new sets of 28mm Medieval Men-At-Arms in metal for you to snap up over the next while that ...

As archaeologists discover new ruins revealing the ancient origins of the church, new technologies reveal the extent of its ...

ONGOLE: A 15th-century Telugu inscription was discovered at the Venugopalaswamy temple at Millampalle village in ...