BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's top court ruled on Tuesday that an anti-Semitic, medieval sculpture can stay on the facade of a church in the eastern town of Wittenberg, rejecting an appeal by a Jewish ...

A medieval stone carving of a 12th-century queen has been discovered at an Abbey in southern England. Local officials in Milton Keynes unveiled the stone carving on Monday, explaining that it was ...

Medieval graffiti that people once carved to try and ‘ward off evil spirits’ has been discovered by archaeologists. Two stones from the remains of a church in Buckinghamshire in the UK had the spooky ...

A look inside Llananno’s unassuming Powys church, home to one of Wales’ finest medieval rood screens, beautifully preserved for more than ...

You may never have come into contact with a Jewish pig. But the Germans have. Around 30 churches in Europe — mostly in Germany — have stone carvings on their facades that depict the medieval folk-art ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s often easier to appreciate the imagery in a great work of art than to understand exactly how it was made, and how an artist’s use of any specific material affected the creative ...

Archaeologists found the body of a medieval knight underneath a tombstone that depicted him in full military regalia.

Late last year, archaeologists in Norway made a pair of stunning discoveries only days apart, unearthing two rare sets of runes in separate sections of Oslo’s Medieval Park. Solveig Thorkildsen and ...

Restoration work in the shrine of St. Amphibalus began prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2019. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

Rail workers in the U.K. have discovered a mysterious cave containing the remains of a medieval shrine. The discovery was made after a landslide near Guildford in southern England. Rail workers making ...

DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY, SCOTLAND—The Scotsman reports that restoration of a thirteenth-century carving from Dundrennan Abbey, a ruin located in Scotland’s western uplands, has revealed an image that ...