A medieval sword with rare gold-copper symbols was discovered by construction workers in the Netherlands, according to ...

By the medieval period, the wheel most often turns up in accounts of the lives—and often very graphic deaths—of the Christian saints; the device even became the symbol of one, St. Catherine of ...

The symbol, a large cross surrounded by four smaller ones, is called a Jerusalem Cross, and it dates back to medieval times. According to Steyer, he draws it on himself every morning with a pen.

Stereograms mark a threshold in understanding visual perception. Modern study of stereopsis began with Wheatstone's invention of the stereogram and stereoscope (~ 1832), important tools in vision ...

It turned out to be a medieval iron sword, remarkably intact and decorated with telling inlaid copper symbols—a crisscrossed circle and an “infinite knot.” ...

Another theory is that it is merely a late-Medieval hoax. While the debates rage on, here are five things you probably did not know about this most mysterious of manuscripts. Five scribes ...

The Clues Lie in This Medieval French Illustration The 13th-century French manuscript "Romance of the Pear" contains an early depiction of the heart as a symbol of love. Allegorical image from the ...

The sword's hilt is made up of a six-and-a-half-inch guard, once-leather grip and nut-shaped pommel. Ruben de Heer. In March 2024, construction workers were digging in a river on a Dutch estate ...