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Donatello’s Bronze Doors Are Back in Florence After Years Away
Five hundred and eighty years after they were cast, two of Donatello’s most ambitious bronze…
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A Medieval Hand Cannon Found in Germany Could Rewrite Firearms History
A tiny bronze fragment, just six centimetres long, could rewrite what we know about the history of handheld firearms in…
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The Knight Who Fought in Wales Then Vanished Into Crusade History
A knight who survived nearly nine decades of medieval warfare — from the marshes of…
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Ancient Arabic Document Reveals an African King Once Thought to Be Legend
A single scrap of Arabic text, buried for centuries beneath the sands of Sudan, has…
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What Medieval Chroniclers Got Wrong About the Defeat at Manzikert
Did one of the most consequential military defeats in medieval history happen because of treachery…
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A Medieval English Jug Made It to a West African Palace and Back
A bronze jug made in medieval England, sometime between 1340 and 1405, somehow ended up…
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What Tree Rings From 1204 Reveal About a Medieval Solar Storm
Around the year 1200, a powerful burst of solar radiation struck Earth — and almost…
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A Winter Storm in Portugal Just Revealed Two 10-Million-Year-Old Whales
Two whale skeletons, each roughly 10 million years old, have emerged from a beach in…
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How Prehistoric Elephants Helped Human Ancestors Build Bigger Brains
Picture an animal nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant — a beast…
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The Book on Feudal Society That Medievalists Keep Coming Back To
On June 23, 2026, a medieval historian who died holding the hand of a terrified…
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Rome’s underground tunnels reveal a 2,000-year-old secret that changes everything we knew
Carmela Rodriguez never imagined that a single phone call would change her understanding of history…