A new study reveals that medieval chess was a powerful vehicle for promoting racial harmony. While contemporary medieval art often depicted non-white individuals in extreme roles, representations of ...

The Avars rose as a dominant ethnic group in Europe, where their conflicts with the Byzantine Empire reshaped the landscape of the Balkans.

Yorkshire Museum in York is offering family-friendly Easter activities focused on fossils, archaeology, and nature ...

His name is Dennis Buttorff and his life has been about helping people. He has had a long career of substantial service to both the United States and towns in Lycoming and Clinton counties as regional ...

A Sligo archaeologist has identified previously unrecorded burial grounds used for babies who were stillborn, miscarried or ...

History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

Children playing near a site in central Dijon, in central-eastern France, came across something far older than anything in their playground: a human skeleton, seated upright in the earth, dating back ...

A flood in Apollosa, Italy, revealed limestone blocks carved with reliefs of battling gladiators that were part of a monument along the Appian Way.

Chess is widely seen as a great equalizer. Players from every social, racial, and economic class have squared off across the ...

Medieval manuscripts, paintings and chess sets reveal that the so-called "game of kings" defied social structures and racial attitudes by celebrating the intellectual prowess of winners irrespective ...

Excavations in Nessebar, Bulgaria, uncovered stunning Hellenistic treasures, including a bronze wreath, ritual coin and other grave goods.