A new book gives a remarkable account of one woman's legal battle after suffering a brutal attack in 1472 in the French city ...

Some residents of the Peaks District in the 13th century may have experienced worse lead pollution than city-dwellers during ...

On the small Scottish island of Lismore, history has a way of hiding in plain sight. Granted, the place clearly has a rich ...

Archaeologists in Russia unearthed a flat wooden "pizza paddle" that had a board game carved into it.

Egypt in the Middle Ages was steeply class stratified. When the rains failed, the rich dined on hoarded grain while the starving poor ate grass. Periodically, the masses would erupt in revolt — ...

A COUNCIL has dug medieval-style trenches around its parks in a bid to deter travellers setting up camp – but fed-up locals ...

Archaeologists believe it may be the remains of one of two high-ranking medieval monks who died around 1,000 years ago.

These Middle Ages myths reveal how movies distort medieval life with gray towns, constant mud, filthy peasants, and endless ...

In rural Louisiana, eviction hearings are held at kitchen tables and other unorthodox venues – and many justices have little legal training ...

For more than a century, a stone coffin at Westminster Abbey carried the name of a Roman-era Londoner, while the identity of ...

Falkenstein Castle in Germany, dating back to the 12th century, is receiving €40,000 to restore the roof of its medieval ...

Live action role play, or Larping, allows me to straddle two worlds with fellow weirdos – and enter a realm where death can be reversed and I’m a cashed-up bureaucrat ...