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 development in medieval Europe.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Medieval mass grave unearthed in Germany may contain remains of Black Death victims - Find marks first systematically ...

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 ...

“This finding aligns with both modern soil science and the medieval ‘miasma theory,’ which held that diseases spread through ...