Originally, Lent began on the sixth Sunday before Easter. In the sixth century, its start date was moved to the preceding Wednesday to ensure a full 40 days of fasting since Sundays were exempt.

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...

In previous searches, Młotek and the group discovered 11th-century coins, as well as a “pochwy miecza,” or chape, the decorated end of a sword scabbard, in 2015, Młotek said. Now, with the chance to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Older women protagonists often tend to fall into two categories in books and particularly on screen – either as a comic device (it ...

The Boston Celtics have been without Kristaps Porzingis for the last six games, including Monday night's win over the Utah Jazz, as the big man has been dealing what he described as a "viral ...

Read on to see which Cyclones received Big 12 honors. Touted as the nation's leading bench scorer, Curtis Jones became just the third Cyclone to receive the Big 12 Sixth Man Award. The other two were ...

With such a glorious trend, it bagged the title of the 6th highest-grossing movie of all time globally. Out of this monstrous total, USD 2.03 billion came from the Chinese markets alone.

Armor vs. bullets Exactly when the medieval period or "Middle Ages" started and ended is a matter of debate, with dates falling roughly between A.D. 500 and 1500. Although the period is ...

Audi, which recently settled on a naming strategy for its models, has revealed the sixth-generation (C9) A6. Built on the Volkswagen Group’s Premium Platform Combustion (PPC) that is also used ...

China’s newest fighter jet emerged as a talking point at an American defence conference this week, with US Air Force officials showing more urgency to get their own version of a sixth-generation ...