In the 1330s, bubonic plague broke out in China and was transported back to Europe by traders. The disease struck swiftly there. The Italian writer Boccaccio said that its victims "ate lunch with ...

“An Epic of Kings” centers on an elaborate illustrated version of the Shahnama produced in the city of Tabriz in about the 1330s, during the roughly century-long rule of the Ilkhanids — a ...

Further territories such as Skye and Lewis were granted when John of Islay supported Edward Balliol (son of John Balliol) in his attempts to seize the throne of Scotland in the 1330s. These ...

The French eschec became the English check, first used in the early 1330s for the call made in chess when a player has ...

Yamada Yuji, the vice-president of Mie University's International Ninja Research Center Ninja tradition dates back to the 1330s. During the Warring States Period [1467-1590], ninjas did sneak into ...

DNA samples taken from skeletons that had been buried in the north of modern-day Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia in the 1330s showed that they had been infected with the Yersinia pestis bacterium which ...

However, according to a new study in the science journal Nature, the Black Death originated in northern Kyrgyzstan in central Asia in the late 1330s. A team of researchers from Scotland's ...

composed in the 1330s. Reading over Hanna's shoulder, scholars can follow the reasoning behind his editorial decisions and pick up a great deal of practical knowledge about scribal practice in the ...

This volume furnishes a better understanding of the allegories' circulation, creation and importance from the 1330s into the 1560s, via trans-national, multilingual and interdisciplinary perspectives.

c. 1220-1330s - Mongol invasions and occupations of the Caucasus. 1299-1302 - George V of Georgia defeats the Mongols and restores the Georian kingdom. After his death, Georgia disintegrates ...

Thirlwell Castle (Image: Fabulous North) John Thirwall built Thirwell Castle near Gilsland in the 1330s and may have chosen this site as all the materials he needed to build it were close by, ...

As you enter “An Epic of Kings” at the National Museum of Asian Art, a recording of a woman’s voice reciting the Shahnama sets the stage for the exhibition. Even if you don’t understand ...