A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into ...

Divers have unearthed the largest cog shipwreck ever discovered in a strait off Denmark, signalling a period of economic ...

A "priceless" manuscript held in a school library has been confirmed as the only surviving complete version of a work by an ...

In 1379, a group of pigs in the village of Saint-Marcel-lès-Jussey in eastern France killed a swineherd’s child. In 1386, a ...

In medieval Europe, castles were the ultimate homes for kings and nobles. The big stone structures weren't just fancy ...

Last summer, Linda Åsheim found a ring so beautiful it looks like it could have been made yesterday. But Åsheim is an ...

Spotted off the coast of Denmark, the "Svaelget 2" is a cog, a kind of large trading vessel used in the Middle Ages. Experts ...

Historically, Theodoro (also known as Gothia) is often described as one of the final “rump states” of the Eastern Roman world, with its capital at Mangup (Doros/Theodoro) and a mixed population that ...

The best location for a monastery was one that was close to water and wood. Many monastic chroniclers mention this.

Find marks first systematically identified burial site associated with plague burials in Europe, scientists say ...

Researchers traced the roots of population movements to England during the early medieval period, from the end of Roman rule ...

The Menga dolmen in Antequera, Spain, is a Neolithic monument and part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. The monument, built ...