This southwest England area has served as a crossroads for multiple civilizations, dating back 12,000 years.

Early Christians started marking bread with a cross to show their devotion, and ate it throughout the year. They believed the ...

It is the building where people have thought to have lived for the longest period of time ...

The Essex town of Colchester has a rich history with its winding ancient streets teeming with Roman and medieval buildings, ...

Examining Saltford House reveals its venerable past, with remnants such as medieval decorative artwork probably dating back ...

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in ...

Medieval manuscripts are rich sources of knowledge ... including analysis of ancient DNA and collagen, to examine intriguingly hairy outer bindings of twelfth- and thirteenth-century books from ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

Some commuters in a cosmopolitan European city may be shocked to learn they've been walking over ancient skeletons for many years. Officials in Brussels, Belgium, announced on April 9 that public ...

Ancient England had more "bling" than historians have given it credit for. That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating ...