Illustrations from a copy of the "Book of the Wonders of the Age" of the 17th-18th century, held at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Marvellous fish illustrate the work of the Arab writer Zakariya ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Qazwini, who lived in the 13th century.
Lyudmila Gurchenko, Muslim Magomayev and Polad Bulbul oglu
A fish diet can make radiocarbon dates of bones look older A Danish-Dutch team of scientists has checked the radiocarbon dating of 27 burials in medieval Danish monasteries. One would naturally suppose that monks and noble laymen could not have been buried at a monastery before the brethren had
In France, a burial ground of the fifth century has been excavated at Horbourg-Wihr near Colmar. Burials were made here between 450 and 500, that is, in the years of the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire. Archaeologists uncovered the graves of 11 adults, three children and two horses,
Thirty parishes and monastic communities of the Lithuanian Orthodox Church, which belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate, sent appeals by 10 November to the leadership and deputies of the Lithuanian parliament. The communities oppose bills that change the legal status of the Church, restrict its rights and transfer a number of