A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

Today we thought we would take a look at wiping bottoms. During the Late Middle Ages, one of the most intimate courtiers, the Groom of the Stool, (and when we say ‘Stool’, we don’t mean something used ...

Hèléne Jawhara Piñer is a French-Spanish scholar whose focus is medieval history and the history of food. Her meticulously ...

A new study from a University of Nottingham archaeologist has revealed surprising insights into the city's medieval past, ...

It is the building where people have thought to have lived for the longest period of time ...

According to Ms Tipper, the leprosarium was known as "the Hospital of the Holy Innocents". Ms Tipper said the building was a ...

A ceramic pot turned into a jackpot for a woman on a walk in the Kutnohorsk Region of the Czech Republic. While out on a stroll, the woman happened upon a roughly 900-year-old stash of more than 2,150 ...

A new set of stamps, created by Manx artist Juan Moore and medieval history expert Professor R. Andrew McDonald, will mark ...

A University of Houston-Victoria history faculty member has received her second fellowship in the past few years and will have the opportunity to finish a research project in California.