Being a teenager in the Middle Ages was a whole different kind of survival. In this video, we explore what life was really ...

An unrelated pair of people buried in cemeteries in 7th-century Britain probably had grandparents from West Africa ...

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 ...

Hospitals in the Middle Ages weren’t quite what we picture today. In this video, we explore how health care actually worked ...

The new series of P College Cultural and Historical Awareness Program, CHAP, lectures are dedicated to PC Professor emeritus ...

In the historic city of Freiburg, Germany, archaeologists have discovered a medieval toy shop dating back to the 14th century ...

Two people who lived in England during the Early Middle Ages had recent sub-Saharan African ancestry — likely from a grandparent, a new DNA analysis reveals. "The DNA shows that there is human, as ...

Medieval medicine is undergoing a reputation makeover. New research reveals that far from being stuck in superstition, early Europeans actively explored healing practices based on nature, observation, ...

Archaeologists have analyzed the DNA of two unrelated individuals buried in 7th-century-AD cemeteries on the south coast of England, revealing that they both had recent ancestors, likely grandparents, ...