The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and the ...

Modern European cities and medieval cities share a population-density-to-area relationship, a new paper concludes – the latest research to find regularities in human settlement patterns across space ...

Archaeologists have discovered the lost medieval town of Stolzenberg in a Polish forest, uncovering more than 400 artifacts and new clues about why the town mysteriously vanished.

Throughout the Middle Ages, cities emerged as powerful centers of trade, politics, religion and culture across Europe, Asia ...

Discover a selection of the top medieval cities in Europe that offer fascinating glimpses into the past. This video ...

Archaeologists revealed previously undocumented medieval cities that are located near the ancient temple city of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. These vast, new cities are groundbreaking discoveries that ...

With the help of lasers fired at the ground from helicopters, archaeologists have revealed medieval cities hidden beneath dense jungle near the ancient temple city of Angkor Wat. With the help of ...

Lively communities for trade emerged in the Middle Ages and populations grew dense. This created opportunities as well as problems. One of those worries was sanitation, specifically the treatment of ...

One of the things archaeology consistently teaches us is that humanity is remarkably resilient in the face of crisis. Another is that poop is forever. Archaeologists have already explored the contents ...

Medieval cities - with their agrarian societies and simple market economies - seem very different from modern European urban centers. Life in 14th-century cities centered around hierarchical ...