During the Little Ice Age the islands became colder, windier and wetter than they had been, factors which may explain why the 13th-century settlement was eventually abandoned. Although the islands ...

Polynesian explorers settled on a group of freezing sub-Antarctic islands in the 13th century after a “mind-blowing” voyage across the Southern Pacific Ocean, archaeologists have discovered.

The skull of St. Thomas Aquinas is on a three-week tour throughout the United States in a rare chance for people to see a ...

A rare 13th-century Bible could return to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral more than 700 years after it was written. It is one of only six manuscripts attributed to the Sarum Master ...

A new study has found evidence that 13th-century Polynesians settled as far south as the Auckland Islands, just 2,000 kilometres from Antarctica. The study, published in Archaeology in Oceania ...

A local court in India has accepted a petition filed by a right-wing Hindu organization to survey a 13th-century famous Muslim saint shrine in Ajmer city in western Rajasthan state, which is visited ...

"[Barberstown's] four-star country house and 13th-century castle is easily accessible, just 25km from Dublin and 10 minutes from the M50 motorway." This four-star country house and 13th-century ...