French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers didn't look at all like the others.

The 44th annual King Richard's Faire will be switching locations this season, but have no fear. The new spot is close to the ...

The Darth Revan mod for Blade & Sorcery: Nomad is everything a great character mod should be: stylish, immersive, and full of ...

The Lobster House stands as an institution on Fisherman’s Wharf, where fishing boats unload their daily catch mere steps from your table. Their raw bar serves up oysters and clams so fresh they ...

Cape Town has bagged a spot as one of the best cities in the world for foodies on Big 7 Travel’s annual list of The 50 Best Food Cities in the World. According to Cape Town Etc, the list was ...

Money has shaped civilizations for centuries, but in Medieval Europe, it didn’t work the way we think today. The rise of banking, trade credit, and money changers transformed the economy from a ...

A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of ...

More than 4,000 spectators, including many in Middle Ages garb, stepped into the faux-medieval world of Kryal Castle in Ballarat to watch jousting's answer to the cricket's Ashes rivalry.

Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers breaking news and updates on Politics, Current Affairs ...

Health and disease in the medieval world – and how our ancestors sought to cure everything from infertility to constipation – are the focus of a major new exhibition opening on 29 March 2025 at ...

Cape buffaloes, also known as African buffaloes, are often referred to as one of the “Big Five” game animals in Africa. They share this status with elephants, lions, leopards, and rhinoceros. While ...

The Eastern Cape Department of Education deregistered an independent school in Matatiele, Eastern Cape, after a seven-year-old pupil was allegedly raped. The perpetrator allegedly raped the now ...