There is a popular tradition from Welsh folklore about a prince who, in the middle of the Middle Ages, set out to cross the ...

Old-world charm and modern culture collide in this European city full of art, history, street murals, and digital museums you'll actually want to visit.

The house in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany, where Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa was born in 1401 is now a museum known as the Cusanus Geburtshaus. Nicholas came from a wealthy merchant family and went on ...

Archaeologists Identified a Mysterious 15th-Century Skull. It May Belong to a Legendary King. A royal mystery may finally be solved.

First explored by the Portuguese in the 15th century, The Gambia later became a major hub in the transatlantic slave trade. It remained a British colony from 1821 until gaining independence in 1965.

To learn more about a 15th-century city known as Guiengola, a team led by Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis, a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University in Canada, used lidar to map out the site in ...

A coin hoard dating to the 15th century has been discovered near a medieval synagogue in Israel. Why it was deposited there, however, is a mystery.

The Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu has astounded and confounded visitors since it was unveiled to the wider world more than ...

A German museum said Friday it would return to Namibia a 15th-century navigation landmark erected by Portuguese explorers, as part of Berlin's efforts to face up to its colonial past.