Europe is filled with modern capitals and bustling cities, but scattered across the continent are towns that feel untouched ...

Polygamy in the Middle Ages wasn’t about romance — it was about power, survival, and hierarchy. While officially condemned, ...

The combination of filigree and granulation techniques arrived in Norway during the early Middle Ages from the Byzantine Empire, partly via Carolingian goldsmithing traditions. The Carolingian period, ...

Horses are instinctively wired to run from danger. So how did medieval armies train them to thunder towards enemy lines ...

The Middle Ages blurred the line between fact and fiction. One man became famous across Europe — yet proof of his existence ...

Researchers are excavating Leicester Market amid the area’s large-scale renovation New Research New research suggests that the famous bronze statue may have originally guarded a Chinese tomb before ...

Installation view of Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages at The Met Cloisters showing a sculpture of Saint Sebastian (Northern Europe, late 15th century) (all photos Emma ...

A team of archaeologists have made an incredible discovery in the waters off the coast of Copenhagen. The Danish team has ...

Why everyone is suddenly going all in on the Middle Ages.