Near the English-Welsh border sits this National Trust gem with stunning Italian-style terraced gardens and over 1,000 ...

From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in the Middle Ages ...

Medieval cities were vital hubs of trade, politics, religion, and learning across much of the world. From Constantinople and Baghdad to Florence and Venice, these urban centers connected distant ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

Prisons in the Middle Ages were often designed less for rehabilitation and more for punishment and control. Some facilities gained reputations for extreme conditions, where prisoners faced ...

Buried in the deserts of the Near East, Egypt, and Central Asia, ancient libraries with troves of knowledge and wisdom have been uncovered.

There are numerous examples in texts of Irish people showing a sense of belonging to a community defined in relation to Europe ...

“I spend my life uncovering hidden histories and hidden stories,” says Karun Thakar, one of the world’s most prolific textile collectors. Sitting under a rare, luminous piece of Indian embroidery in ...

Remnants of the Y-chromosomal lineage attributed to Genghis Khan were found in a set of medieval mausoleums attributed to his ...

When are the governors of a state a ‘government’ and when are they a ‘regime’? When is the killing of 160 little children a terror attack, and when is it when little girls just ‘die’ autonomously in ...

The Via Francigena is an ancient pilgrimage path of about 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) that begins at Canterbury Cathedral, ...

Victor Davis Hanson explains how decades of U.S. restraint and Iranian proxies built the myth of an invincible Iran – and how ...