THE DAILY PIC (#1657): This kind of elephant-tusk hunting horn is called an olifant, and the 12 th-century one in this image is from the museum of fine arts in Angers in France. Curators there have ...

For early Europeans, the mythical horned horse was real, and so was unicorn medicine. It turns out, however, that unicorns ...

The last aurochs, the wild ancestor of domesticated cattle and a favorite game animal up to the medieval period in Europe, died at a game preserve in Poland in 1627. Now a group of Scandinavian ...

A medieval civic horn which was stolen in a daylight raid on the town hall in the 60s has finally been returned to Dover after years of searching. The Dover Burghmote Horn, made of copper alloy, was ...

A cow horn believed to be the oldest known example of a medicine container in southern Africa has been discovered in a South African cave. It sheds light on the herbal remedies used by indigenous ...

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 least ...

A cow horn believed to be the oldest known example of a medicine container in southern Africa has been discovered in a South African cave. It sheds light on the herbal remedies used by indigenous ...