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A medieval sword with rare gold-copper symbols was discovered by construction workers in the Netherlands, according to ...
'Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page' at Oxford's Bodleian Libraries considers how early English manuscripts approached graphic design.
A medieval sword has gone on display at a museum in the Netherlands after its chance discovery during a dredging operation on a river in the center of the country.
Many viewers noticed Steyer sporting the unusual symbol — the Jerusalem Cross — during the Democratic debate Tuesday night in Des Moines, Iowa.
Swedish archaeologists uncovered medieval monastery ruins in Derome, thanks to a history enthusiast's research of old maps and advanced radar technology.
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.” The Linschoten Estate, the priva ...
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 ...
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.
Apparently, precocious empirical knowledge of stereopsis played more than a technical role in the creation of some of the world's more famous graphic art.
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.
This Medieval Sword Pulled From a Dutch Riverbed Is Marked With Intricate Copper Symbols The artifact was remarkably preserved for a millennium in anaerobic clay on a ...