Cecilia Renard explains how this dazzling Balearic island has an even more tranquil atmosphere once the summer crowds ...

The Bible, on display at the Medieval Art Gallery ... “Although it was accepted that in old workshops artists created compositions themselves, a normal practice in old art, quite popular and ...

Mexican Bishop José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra is the world’s oldest bishop and is one of only four surviving bishops who ...

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient civilization. Marking a massive comet strike as the ...

PRAGUE CASTLE, CZECH REPUBLIC—La Brújula Verde reports that excavations within Prague Castle yielded the oldest vanilla bean pod in Europe. Mesoamerican cultures such as the Maya and Aztecs had ...

A 400-year-old Bible has been donated to a church to help it raise money to stay open for longer during the week. The rare artefact, known as a She Bible, was donated to St Cuthbert's Church in ...

A medieval manuscript, believed to be the oldest Jewish book in the world ... The tome was previously on view at the the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., which said the book is relic ...

It was found, the team notes, in a bed of Bathonian rock, in the El Mers III Formation near a dig site that had previously yielded the world's oldest ankylosaur. The researchers note that the ...

Take these two inhabitants of the Philadelphia Zoo, both of whom have become first-time parents at roughly 100 years old. According to a press release, the Philadelphia Zoo’s reptile and ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe. The team did so for ...

She is now the first of her species to give birth in the zoo's history. Mommy is also the oldest of her species to become a first-time mom across all zoos. She now shares four hatchlings ...