The Voynich manuscript is a medieval book unlike any other. It remains a mystery, continues to keep its secrets intact, teasing scholars, linguists, codebreakers, and machines alike.
The book is so mysterious that the vast majority of its contents are...
For many centuries, Aristotle was regarded as one of the highest intellectual authorities in philosophy, science, politics, and ethics, and his influence was later extended and reshaped through Pseudo-Aristotle writings attributed to him. His writings shaped Western thought across...
It is difficult to overstate just how unusual and ingenious Al-Masudi was for his time.
Most history written in the 10th century is what we would consider “conventional” history. It consists of lists of kings, battles, and religious lineages, page...
"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religions, our arts have their root in Greece," Percy Bysshe Shelley.
By Demetri Kantarelis, Ph.D. Professor, Assumption University
"Hey, we are all Greek!" I mean that, figuratively, we, all inhabitants of Earth,...
Christianity was widespread in late-Middle Ages Europe, and Christmas celebrations every December were the norm in cities and villages.
For Christians, the days that lead to Christmas Day are days of joy and anticipation. It is the coming of Jesus...
The Islamic Golden Age was a period during which science, literature, geometry, astronomy, and other fields of knowledge flourished from the eighth to the thirteenth century. Without the scholars of this period, who translated the works of the Ancient...
For centuries, the Islamic world stood at the forefront of science and philosophy, guiding humanity through an age of Enlightenment. The great scholars of the Islamic Golden Age harmonized reason and faith. They preserved and expanded upon the wisdom...
A new study suggests the Shroud of Turin — long believed by some to be Jesus’ burial cloth — was likely draped over a carved sculpture rather than a real human body.
The findings, published July 28 in the journal...
Hidden at the outbreak of World War II, a cache beneath Vilnius Cathedral in Lithuania has been unearthed after decades. Archaeologists have uncovered a breathtaking collection of royal treasures—crowns, scepters, and regalia that once adorned 16th-century Lithuanian and Polish...
In the fourteenth century, the Black Death spread rapidly throughout Asia and Europe, including in Greece and across the Byzantine empire.
The Black Death is the most fatal pandemic ever recorded, as an estimated 75 to 200 million people died...
