Testimony in one 15 th -century manuscript records how a friar at Stamford was cured of his nosebleeds by dipping his testicles into cold water and vinegar. Another records the apparently successful ...

While every city has plenty of places tourists want to visit, Rick Steves says this relatively normal sight in America is essential sightseeing in Europe.

Sulpice, the Paris skyline symbolises the legacy left behind by Victor Hugo. Ahead of a new show opening at the Royal Academy, Michael Hodges follows the path of the celebrated French writer and ...

When the extraordinary legend of Saint Mary was first translated into Old English from Latin by an unknown author ... Mary and the monk Zosimus in a Greek manuscript in the 11th Century ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

Earth’s oldest meteorite impact crater was just found in WA’s Pilbara region – exactly where geologists hoped it would be. We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very ...

Oto, Japan’s oldest lion, died Monday of natural causes at the Toyohashi Zoo & Botanical Park in Aichi Prefecture, according to the zoo. She was 25½ years old — equivalent to about 100 human ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Art Schallock, a left-handed pitcher who in 1951 replaced future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle on the Yankees' roster and had been the oldest living former major leaguer ...

Art Schallock, a former Yankee who had been the oldest living retired major leaguer, has died, MLB announced Saturday. Schallock would have turned 101 in April. Schallock, a lefty, pitched for the ...

And the artworks have an unexpected connection to a precious manuscript in Melbourne. The Cluny tapestries have been the subject of debate ever since the museum acquired them in 1882. Dating to ...

Art Schallock, a little-known New York Yankees left-hander who treasured his late-in-life fame as the oldest living former major-league ballplayer, died Wednesday at age 100. Schallock pitched a ...