Over the centuries, works of medieval literature have become lost. Today, roughly 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works ...

Historian and host of the Gone Medieval podcast Matt Lewis ranks the most famous weapons from the medieval period. From the ...

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

An ordinary stroll through the countryside turned extraordinary when a woman walking near Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic stumbled upon a buried trove of silver coins dating back approximately 900 ...

And why do they look so bizarre to us today? The medieval period, also sometimes known as the Middle Ages, is generally understood to have spanned about 1,000 years, from the 5th century to the ...

Weasel testicles, stargazing and royal remedies feature in an exhibition on our ancestors’ quest to cure everything from ...

They also provided help and support to their local community. At a time when there was no healthcare provided by the government, monasteries had an infirmary, where they would look after and pray ...

Excavation work along the route of the Adare bypass unearthed a medieval treasure when a brooch pin dating back to the eighth ...

She added: "The area to the north of Howden would have been the focus for a number of small settlements in the medieval period." ...