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 ...

Part of the 13th-century Torre dei Conti, located just steps from the Colosseum and Imperial Forum, collsapsed shortly after ...

ROME: A medieval tower in central Rome that was under renovation partially collapsed on Monday (Nov 3), with one worker ...

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

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 ...

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

The Medieval period, often idealized in movies, was a harsh and often terrifying time to be alive. The era is technically ...

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 ...

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