St. Valentine is not just patron saint of lovers, but also epilepsy, plague and beekeepers?
As couples across the world prepared for Valentine's Day in February 2025, a rumor cropped up on social media that St.
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What 15th-Century Lovers Wrote in Their Valentines
The world's oldest Valentine is on display in the "Medieval Women: In Their Own Words" exhibition at the British Library in ...
Butchered skulls point to Europe’s Ice Age cannibals
Discovered over a century ago, the late Upper Paleolithic archeological site included stone and bone tools, evidence of ...
Art and science illuminate the same subtle proportions in tree branches
The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...
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Huma Bhabha’s Apocalyptic and Shadowy Sculptures Capture the Anxieties of Our Present
The striking public art exhibition of Huma Bhabha at Brooklyn Bridge Park with the Public Art Fund features four haunting ...
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Kutná Hora celebrates 30 years of UNESCO status with a light festival and more
Kutná Hora is marking the 30th anniversary of its UNESCO World Heritage status with an exciting array of cultural events ...
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Crafting Unique Skull Earrings from Resin Molds
What we know after plane collides with helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport Historians Thought This Was a Medieval Site Linked to King Arthur. It Turned Out to Be a Mysterious Monument ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas – the great Dominican medieval thinker whose writings I study – made its first tour of the United States. The journey commemorated the ...