It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyranny of the ...

After holding a place of honor in the symbolic pantheon of Greco-Roman and early Christian iconography during the first ...

The fair has a jewel of a 16th-century illuminated manuscript, and other museum-quality items, but fewer standouts over all.

A long-lost fragment of the Bayeux Tapestry, missing since World War II, has been rediscovered in Germany. The piece, linked ...

Other inscriptions say things like “here is where scorpions are born” or this inscription over a largely empty Africa, “it is ...

The medieval Mongol archive, dating from the 13th century, had a profound influence on French maps and exploration.

Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, in Southeastern France, offers beautiful landscapes at the base of dramatic limestone cliffs and ...

A show in Chantilly will reveal the ‘Mona Lisa’ of illuminated manuscripts — a rarely exhibited 15th-century prayer book ...

a senior State Department of the Bush administration posed a question on Thursday whether the French proposal to ban Muslim headscarves ... fro legislation to prevent the wearing of religious symbols ...

Syria’s renowned landmarks, such as the ancient city of Palmyra and the medieval castle of Crac des ... seeing them as symbols of idolatry. IS militants also beheaded Khaled al-Asaad, an elderly ...

February is the beginning of the end (or so we hope) of winter in New York City, and the design calendar is accordingly packed. Opening on Valentine’s Day, Jacqueline Sullivan’s new show is ...