This auction represents a rare opportunity to acquire pieces that embody the history of humanity itself. Held live at The Court House, 363 Main Road, Harwich, Essex, with worldwide online bidding ...

ESSEX, U.K. – Beauty, status and identity – those are the three reasons why personal adornment with jewelry is likely to have begun. But just how far back does the concept of jewelry go, what types of ...

This sixth-century pectoral comprises 14 Byzantine gold coins and a gold disc gathered over two centuries.

Pieces once traded during the Greek and Roman eras or salvaged from Spanish shipwrecks continue to be popular with artisans ...

The Edinburgh jeweler Hamilton & Inches has created a 10-piece collection with the largest of the almost 200 freshwater ...

Thieves recently stole several of the French crown jewels worn by the two imperial families of Napoleon and his nephew, Napoleon II, from the Louvre in Paris. As such, historic royal pieces, like this ...

Historians have traced myths about the Black Death’s rapid journey across Asia to one 14th-century poem by Ibn al-Wardi. His imaginative maqāma, never meant as fact, became the foundation for ...

The before-meal wash was an important ritual for peasants and nobility alike—especially since people often ate with their hands. An important social ritual in the Middle Ages, handwashing was also ...

Epic tales, poems of praise, and fantastic legends swirled around famous knights in the Middle Ages. Their bravery in battle and tournament victories inspired incredible accounts of both fact and ...