Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people from different social groups in medieval Cambridge ate markedly different ...

Medieval Christian burials in Denmark were likely more influenced by money than supposed outward markers of sin, according to new research.

The medieval tunnel was dug into loess and cut directly through a trapezoidal ditch associated with the Baalberge culture (4th millennium BC), a landscape already reused for burials in later ...

Medieval medical advice mixed superstition, philosophy, and bad observation. Doctors prescribed vomiting, animal waste, fumes, and strange rituals as cures. Disease was blamed on vapors, imbalance, or ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

New research reveals a forgotten side of medieval Christianity—one rooted not in cathedrals, but in fields, forests, and farms. Historian Dr. Krisztina Ilko uncovers how the Augustinian order built ...

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The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is inviting visitors to explore the intersection of science, art, and mysticism in the Middle Ages with two captivating exhibitions, Lumen: The Art and Science ...

Creative Assembly has announced Total War: Medieval 3, the next mainline game in its long-running strategy series. Unveiled at Creative Assembly’s 25th anniversary showcase, Total War: Medieval 3 is a ...

In 1915, archaeologists uncovered the skeletal remains of a young man beneath the floor of a Dominican monastery on Margaret Island in Budapest. The remains showed signs of a violent death, and the ...

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