How did people live and die during the harshest months of the year? How did they stay warm? What did they eat? How did they ...

The skeleton of a man with a severe dislocated fracture of the knee, found in a cemetery in Lund, southern Sweden, is helping to unravel the complexities of social attitudes towards individuals with ...

The Middle Ages, usually dated from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, were a period of striking contrasts. Castles rose ...

Machine generated contents note: Volume 1 -- Section A Preliminaries -- ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1. Summary -- 1.2. Geography -- 1.3. Site chronology -- 1.4. Ethnic/political terms -- 1.5. Technical ...

It may sound ridiculous, but in the Late Middle Ages one of the most trusted royal courtiers was the Groom of the Stool — the man tasked with helping the king answer nature’s call Missing hiker found ...