Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word puzzles.

One 15th Century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar, and translated from Latin, included a suggested infertility cure ...

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

Italian grape and wine domestication took 7,000 years. Seeds show a shift from wild to cultivated types. Sardinia played a key role early.

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

I’m a believer. Not in a higher power, but in the power of sacred spaces to move, challenge, educate and uplift me.

Medieval manuscripts revealed some bizarre medical ... medicine wasn’t only used by university-educated docotrs, but monks, friars, surgeons, apothecaries, midwives, and regular people.

President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day, a holiday that was intended to celebrate “the best mother in the world, your mother.” ...