BAFTA-winning director Nick Hamm will soon be back on the big screens with his much-anticipated historical action film ...

Usually made out of iron, these metal gloves, which were used to protect a person's hands and wrists, were invented in the early 14th century, when European soldiers and knights upgraded from ...

Above, a 14th-century pharmaceutical container made in Damascus. Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient ...