WASHINGTON – Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Historians have long ...

Broken and abandoned, a collection of failed projects sat in the ruins of a tile workshop in northwestern France for 800 years. Not anymore. Archaeologists uncovered the ruins of a medieval ...

Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may contain a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Historians have long assumed that ...

The university community is invited to hear from Peter Lu, a physicist at Harvard University, about the mathematics underlying the patterns of medieval Islamic art. His lecture is titled “Girih Tiles: ...

A volunteer helping to restore a derelict listed building in Maidstone has discovered a rare medieval tile. During an archaeological investigation in the grounds of St Andrews, a medieval former ...

Medieval floor tiles are thought to have been discovered at the site of a former British Red Cross ambulance base in Northumberland. A team from Durham City-based Pre-Construct Archaeology have been ...

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Archaeologists uncovered failed projects with a wolf signature stamp in the ruins of an 800-year-old tile workshop in Beaupréau-en-Mauges, photos show. Photo from J.-F. Nauleau and Inrap Broken and ...