But in the cramped and unforgiving streets of Medieval England, this biological edge vanished. A new study reveals that ...

Medieval and early modern mince pies were big enough to feed an entire family, documents unearthed by the National Archives ...

During the Medieval Period in the West, the Christian worldview predominated, yet it’s crucial to acknowledge the significant ...

During the Medieval Period, life expectancy was much lower than it is today, at around 32 years old. Some people lived into their 40s and 50s, but few lived into old age. Still, women would have been ...

Continental Europe is home to four microstates with populations of between 30,000 and 80,000 people: Andorra, on the border ...

For some time, many of these looked to the medieval period as a moment of chivalry and knightly quest. More recently, however, popular culture set in the Middle Ages has leaned into the gritty and ...

Most people don’t get excited about intestinal parasite eggs preserved in 500-year-old human feces. But Marissa Ledger isn't like most people.

The medieval cemetery where the vessel was found dates to the Migration Period of European history. On the island of Great Britain, this era was characterized by the decline of Roman rule (around ...

In medieval England it was only priests and churchmen who could read. However, non-churchmen were able to get around this by learning a verse from the Bible, which they would recite. This became ...

In spite of the general easygoing attitude of the medieval period toward hygiene, table manners were not born in a vacuum. In Italy, the culture that would give rise to Catherine’s crusade for ...

"The history of tattooing in the Nile Valley is quite long, so it is not that tattooing was new or novel in the medieval period of Nubia. The early tattooed individuals were mostly female and had ...