Early medieval Anglo-Saxon bashes featured round-bottomed drinking glasses, designed to be emptied, since they could not be set down. Guests drained their cups and then turned them upside-down on ...

The Old Fashioned glass, named for the venerable whiskey cocktail, might not look all that much like a medieval drinking horn, but you can trace the lineage: The "tumbler" style descends from ...

Have you ever felt like going medieval and carousing like a Viking? Unfortunately, you’re a few hundred years too late. But thanks to New York-based start-up Das Horn, there’s now a way to at ...

Hundreds of fragments of a medieval stained glass window have been returned to a Lincolnshire church after nearly 80 years.

In medieval European cathedrals, the glass sometimes looks odd. ... For practical purposes, such as holding a drink, glass is like a solid, Ediger says, although a disorganized one.

The "clinking" of glasses originated in the medieval days when wine was often spiked with poison as the sediment concealed it quite well. If a host wanted to prove that the wine wasn't poisoned ...

What were medieval pubs, inns, and taverns really like? In this video, we dive into the gritty, lively world of medieval drinking spots. Far from the romanticized versions in films, these places ...

HOW to replace ruined medieval stained-glass windows has over the centuries steadily troubled French civil and ecclesiastical authorities. Time and wars have taken a cruel toll. The great ...

Goethe’s symmetric colour wheel (1809). Unlike Newton, who argued that colour was intrinsic to light itself, Goethe believed it was a created response of the human mind (Creative commons) ...