The Shahnama, the Persian national epic, comes to life in an intricate illustrated 14th-century text made under the Mongols, ...

Long ago I gave up looking for an untouristy, half-timbered medieval German town, but a few years back, I stumbled upon it in ...

He consulted the text, which is about Cyrus, a pagan king anointed by God to rescue Jews from captivity in Babylon. It stood ...

You know how we all have those unexpected treasures hiding right in our backyards? Well, today, I’ve got an absolute gem to ...