Welcome to the Middle Ages, where laws were crazier than a knight jousting with a breadstick. The craziest part is that some ...

Turns out, the Dark Ages weren’t so dim when it came to wellness. Researchers have unearthed a trove of medical remedies dating back over a thousand years, revealing that early medieval Europeans were ...

Accounts that are received from antiquity and repeated over and over again, then merge with eyewitness accounts and blend ...

During the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a ...

The Middle Ages, usually dated from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, were a period of striking contrasts. Castles rose ...

Diane Purkiss is affiliated with Keble College, University of Oxford. “You have to keep beating it for longer,” my grandmother instructed me. “It isn’t pale yet. It’s still too yellow.” I didn’t ask ...

Middle age might just be life’s most fascinating plot twist. It’s that eye-opening chapter where people start noticing subtle shifts in themselves, little cracks that weren’t there before. You’re not ...

James Clark does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

While digging for worms near a house in Sweden, a homeowner uncovered something much larger and much more significant. Archaeologists identified the finds as a collection of thousands of silver ...