One of the most misunderstood periods of history is the Middle Ages, which ranged from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, together with an international team, carried out an archaeogenetic study of human remains from more than 700 individuals from ...

Turns out, the Dark Ages weren’t so dim when it came to wellness. Researchers have unearthed a trove of medical remedies dating back over a thousand years, revealing that early medieval Europeans were ...

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. The “Saturday Night Live” sketch Medieval Barber Theodoric of York says ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A historian of medieval England specializing in economic and monetary history has won Western Michigan University's Otto Gründler Book Prize. Dr. Rory Naismith, professor of early ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The hoard may include up to 20,000 coins, as well as pearls and rings from the Middle Ages of ...

A team of restoration workers in Dijon, France, pulled up a section of stone flooring inside the Church of Saint Philibert and found a staircase that wasn’t on any of the plans. It was just one of the ...

The first autobiography in the English language was written by a Christian woman, Margery Kempe, who lived in the early 1400s. In the early Middle Ages, it was not uncommon for an abbess (the female ...