A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, led by Dr. Elena Fiorin and her colleagues investigated ...

More than 30,000 people are expected to flock to Evesham as the event returns for its fifth year.

Far from living in constant filth, medieval people developed routines, regulations and even public infrastructure to manage ...

Rachel Feltman: These days, science and magic are generally thought of as being diametrically opposed: fact versus fiction, reason versus fantasy, modern sensibilities versus archaic misconceptions.

While in theory, a pope couldn’t be removed during the Middle Ages, late medieval Europe still found ways to challenge, ...

In the largest early-medieval population study to date, an interdisciplinary team consisting of geneticists and archaeologists analyzed over 400 individuals from ancient Britain, Ireland, Germany, ...

While fast food is defined today by fries and neon signs, its Medieval ancestors offered a completely different experience ...

The Cerne Abbas Giant is a 180-foot-tall figure of a naked man wielding a large club, carved with chalk into a hilltop in Dorset, England. The figure’s generously sized erect phallus has earned it the ...

Before our current, carbon-fueled global warming trend took off during the 20th century, the most consequential temperature bump in recorded history was the Medieval Warm Period. This week, scientists ...

My children often ask: Why is history so important? For which I regularly answer — because the past is rich with information and lessons. From about AD 800 to 1300 the Earth underwent a slight warming ...

Early music — the kind defined as being from the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque time periods — reminded Pamela Narbona Jerez of home. As a girl growing up in Santiago, Chile, she sang in the choir ...