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A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

Some commuters in a cosmopolitan European city may be shocked to learn they've been walking over ancient skeletons for many years. Officials in Brussels, Belgium, announced on April 9 that public ...

The abbey, founded in 1115 in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, was home to one of the largest monastic libraries in medieval Europe. Some 1,450 volumes of the abbey’s extensive corpus ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland.

Ambitious blueprints to transform Europe's railway by building a mega Metro line have been unveiled. Copenhagen-based 21st Europe has slammed the continent's 'fragmented, uneven and often slow ...

At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to ...

Europe and the United States of America have to create a “road map” with agreements about the U.S. withdrawal, the Minister of Defense, Ruben Brekelmans, has said. "Let us shape the transition ...

Knights represented the apex warrior of medieval Europe,' says Isuf. 'Heavily armoured and well-trained knights were expected to serve their lord and fight when called upon. As such, knights were ...