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 ...

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

The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don't know why ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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