Archaeologists discover an 800-year-old silver-tipped stylus in a German monastery, shedding light on medieval writing and ...

Epidemics, volcanic eruptions, famine, and wars have always occurred, but some of them were far more terrible than others.

A study has, for the first time, identified minute traces of broomcorn millet consumption directly from human dental calculus ...

New research by a historian from the University of Bristol offers an intriguing suggestion about one of history's biggest ...

At 224 feet long and roughly 770 pounds, the Bayeux Tapestry is a large piece of medieval embroidery. It depicts the events ...