Plans to change the Coast of Arms design were announced in August ... Pinta and Santa Maria ships, with which 15th century explorer Christopher Columbus was recorded as having encountered the ...

On December 20 2024, Denmark’s king, Frederik X, proclaimed a significant, but not unexpected, update to the royal coat of arms ... were abandoned by the 15th century. Approximately a century ...

Muslim traders introduced other citrus varieties including sour oranges, pomelos and limes to Africa and Europe in the 10th century, while the sweet orange arrived in Europe in the 15th century.

Waffles are one of the oldest treats. The history of waffles goes back to ancient Greece and a type of bread called obleios ...

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family that rose to become one of the most powerful political families … Continue ...

Man, do not worry so much / and do not endure such pain; / if you do not have as much as Jacques Coeur, / it is better to ...

A coin hoard dating to the 15th century has been discovered near a medieval synagogue in Israel. Why it was deposited there, however, is a mystery. Archaeologists have discovered a hoard of gold ...

After my column last year, ‘Thank you, pan minister’ in which I ‘thanked’ Prime Minister Dr Rowley for the ill-timed, ill-thought decision to redesign our coat of arms, I never intended to ...

After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

The new king of Denmark has changed the country’s royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland in an apparent rebuke of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to take over the ...

A fishing ban begins this Wednesday off most of France's western coastline ... we discuss how French fishermen are up in arms over the ban and how a previous one effectively saved thousands ...

Now, archaeologists working at the construction site of a school complex have discovered 13 “unusual” Gallic burials dating ...