An old painting found in the kitchen of an elderly woman in France earlier this year -- which was determined to be a work of art from a 13th-century artist-- made her a multimillionaire on Sunday. The ...

Some 750 years ago, a ship loaded with intricately carved gravestones, Purbeck limestone and grinding mortars sank off the coast of Dorset, England, just over a mile from the nearest harbor. The ...

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 Roman de la poire. Image courtesy of Bibliothèque ...

Lost palaces are always in the last place you look. A retired man in England had hoped to build a small home in his garden so he could eventually sell off his main house. But when he broke ground on ...

Historians have been swooping on the site of a former bowling alley in Weymouth, Dorset, which is known to contain the ...

Restorations in a 13th-century church revealed paint and symbols previously undiscovered in France. Ronan-Louessard French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research On the northwestern ...

Get thee to the Nunnery—a mid-13th century Benedictine convent in Cumbria, England, that has been transformed into a stately home, hit the market earlier this week with a guide price of £3.5 million ...

A pair of 13th-century Samurai swords by master maker Bizen Nagamitsu (or, “Nagamitsu from Bizen province,” active 1264-1287) is estimated to sell for between $150,000 and $200,000 at Bonhams October ...

A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur sequel series. University of Cambridge For centuries, the stories of King Arthur ...