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The German government and a government-controlled museum are being sued over the return of medieval artwork worth millions. Mark Kelly reports. Image: AP BERLIN—A year after Germany pledged to bolster ...

The Shroud of Turin, a 4-meter (13-foot) long linen cloth said to bear the imprint of Christ's body, has divided opinions for centuries. A recent discovery sheds new light on its turbulent history, ...

Archaeologists recently retrieved early medieval weapons from a lake in Poland — relics believed to be connected to the country’s first rulers. The Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica announced the ...

Descendants of Jewish art dealers who lived in pre-World War II Germany are suing the German government, claiming they are the rightful owners of a valuable collection of medieval relics that ended up ...

As the precursor of today’s West, the West of the Middle Ages might seem readily knowable. Not so, says Caroline Walker Bynum. Better to think of the Middle Ages as rather like a foreign country. Yes, ...

At a cathedral in York, England, expert stonemasons are combining cutting-edge technology with ancient technique to bring beastly grotesques back to life. Over the centuries, many of the stone details ...

RELICS of Glasgow's medieval past have been found on the site of a former car park in the city centre. Pottery from the fourteenth century and foundations of nineteenth-century tenements, plus ...

A man using a metal detector to search for World War II relics found a medieval artifact in Poland, a local museum said. The Museum of the History of the Kamień Land announced the "unbelievable" find ...

A new cafe will be built in Coventry above "buried" medieval remains. It will create five jobs and go on empty land by historic pubs in the centre. The eatery, described as a cafe/micro-brewery in one ...