Rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential house damaged by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, July 4, 2025.

Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

In Normandy, a glorious Russian convent, Lesna, has been one of the most important historic places of reference for Russian emigration since the late 19th century. During his visit to France in ...

First established in Poland in 1885, the “new convent” eventually found a home in Normandy in 1950 after a long wandering. Its history and profile attract many Russians abroad, who intend ...

English Birth Girdles: Devotions for Women in "Travell of Childe" By Mary Morse In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn ...

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers.

Ukraine's HUR military intelligence service on Sunday said it had conducted a successful operation to disrupt fuel supplies to Russian occupying forces in the south-east of the country. According ...

Ukraine’s capital region of Kyiv has reeled from several recent nights of record-breaking Russian drone attacks, with air raid alerts wailing for nearly 130 hours over the past month.

A 1,000-year-old medieval weapon was unearthed by unknowing construction workers, Ancient Origins reported. Workers dredging the Korte Linschoten River in Utrecht, Netherlands, discovered a ...

Russia claimed Sunday that its forces are for the first time pushing into the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, an area it has been trying to reach for months, in a move that could ...

Russia and Ukraine on Monday carried out an exchange of prisoners of war aged under 25. The exchange followed talks between the sides earlier this month in Istanbul.