A new study reveals that medieval chess was a powerful vehicle for promoting racial harmony. While contemporary medieval art often depicted non-white individuals in extreme roles, representations of ...

Medieval manuscripts, paintings and chess sets reveal that the so-called "game of kings" defied social structures and racial attitudes by celebrating the intellectual prowess of winners irrespective ...

How the so-called ‘game of kings’ defied racial attitudes by celebrating the intellectual prowess of winners, irrespective of their skin colour.

The Extremaduran city is competing to become European Capital of Culture 2031. While the candidates are being judged, ...

Yorkshire Museum in York is offering family-friendly Easter activities focused on fossils, archaeology, and nature ...

Chess is widely seen as a great equalizer. Players from every social, racial, and economic class have squared off across the ...

The artwork, which depicts the changing seasons in Normandy, is the centerpiece of "A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting," a new exhibition in London ...

A quiet cloister behind a wooden door near Rome’s Pantheon offers calm meditation, while its frescoes reveal a turbulent past.

Art lecture and talk with Saeb Eigner, offering a journey through more than a century of modern and contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa, as documented in his latest book "Artists of ...

Constable was born in the Suffolk village of East Bergholt on June 11, 1776. With “Constable 250,” nearby Ipswich honors the pastoral painter’s connections to his homeland, community, country and cont ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.