The town is the oldest in the country and was the capital for several hundred years, with wealthy merchants flocking to the ...

A Romanian worker who was trapped for hours under rubble in Rome after the partial collapse of a medieval tower near the ...

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

A medieval tower in central Rome that was under renovation partially collapsed on Monday, with one worker trapped alive under ...

The Roman poet Virgil described the Roman people as 'gens togata' ('the race that wears ... Christianity suffuses the popular ...

In the riverside town of Vidin in Bulgaria, I was briefly king of the castle. I had the medieval citadel to myself. Looming over the Danube, the fortress was known for centuries as the guardhouse to ...

A medieval tower in central Rome, Italy, near the Colosseum, partially collapsed on Monday (November 3) during renovations of ...

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...

Beneath the shadow of castles and cathedrals medieval Europe was far from primitive this is the story of how science art and architecture quietly flourished in an age too often called dark.

THE UK must be home to hundreds, if not thousands, of Christmas markets – but having explored many across the UK, the South ...

Demography is a particularly murky corner of early medieval history, but we know that between 500 and 1000 there was a trend ...