The Middle Ages are defined as the period between the years 500 and 1500 in Europe. They're also sometimes referred to as the ...

Sifting through the dark brown soil of southwestern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a “rare” and “visually striking” Roman ...

Photo from GUARD Archaeology Sifting through the dark ... an Iron Age settlement dating back to the second century “when southern Scotland had slipped from the grasp of the Roman Empire ...

Historians have long argued these questions about the fierce nomadic fighters who contributed to the fall of the Roman empire and the beginning of the “Dark Ages” in Europe. One dominant theory about ...

461: St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, dies this day in 461, according to legend; his feast day is now celebrated widely ...

The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...

The spread of saffron in Europe can be largely attributed to the spread of the Roman ... the “Dark Ages” throughout Europe, arts, culture and science in the Islamic empire flourished.

In wintry late February and early March as the winds blow, we happily observe the seasonal reminders of Saint Patrick’s Day, ...

A mysterious Roman artefact thought to have been buried to defend an iron age house has been found in a new archaeology ...

A reader highlights a bill that would require schoolchildren to view a video of a developing fetus, and how it flies in the face of state leaders’ claims of supporting parental rights in ...

The public celebration of violent crimes against homeless people normalizes vigilantism, ultimately endangering every one of ...