An exhibition called "Paws on Parchment" tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from ...

Divers recovered “surprising” artifacts from a 15th century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden, including weapons, according to a new study. Photo from the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology ...

While exploring a 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden, divers discovered “surprising” cargo and weapons that may have helped repel pirates. The remains of the wooden vessel lie off the ...

The 15th century Voynich Manuscript (also known as the Cipher Manuscript) is considered the most mysterious text in the world, and we seem no closer to decoding it that when it was first purchased by ...

Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually interpreted ...

A skeleton that may belong to a 15th-century countess has been discovered near a senate building in the Netherlands. Archaeologists were excavating areas around the Binnenhof—a parliament building in ...

A team of archaeologists has investigated the wreck of a boat that sank in the 15th century, revealing fascinating new insights into the stricken vessel. The so-called "Maderö wreck" was first ...