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President Donald Trump’s much-hyped Alaska peace summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in August reportedly collapsed in chaos after the foreign leader veered into a sprawling history lecture ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most famous pieces of art in the world. The 950-year-old, 230-foot chronicle of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings was embroidered in the years following ...

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Is this Central Asia's best-preserved medieval settlement? See Khiva in pictures Once a crucial caravan stop on the Silk Road, Khiva is one of Central Asia’s best-preserved medieval settlements. The ...

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures. The fictional tale of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which she gets ...

A catastrophic earthquake rocked the Caribbean in the late 14th century and triggered a tsunami, according to a new study of coral skeletons, which could help prepare for such future disasters in the ...

A mum has described the horror at hearing she had contracted a medieval skin disease that’s surging in the UK. Amanda Rushton, from Accrington in Lancashire, learnt she had scabies and it took over ...

Initially Amanda Rushton thought the tiny bumps that suddenly appeared on her arms and side were nothing more than an allergy – but then within days she was hit by a maddening urge to itch. ‘It was ...

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