Let's go back to the Middle Ages to look at some dishes people still enjoy today. Find out if one of your favorite meals is ...

The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...

My children often ask: Why is history so important? For which I regularly answer — because the past is rich with information and lessons. From about AD 800 to 1300 the Earth underwent a slight warming ...

Something interesting about history is that just about in every time period and every culture, gay people were knocking boots. Which should be obvious, because in the long ago days before phones, the ...

On a hill in a Massachusetts town is a majestic castle with a long and mysterious history that looks like it comes from a ...

The excavation, launched in July under the initiative of Rustavi City Hall, focuses on exploring the remains of a medieval palace dating back to the 9th-12th centuries within the fortress complex, ...

Norwich Castle, a mighty medieval fortress built by William the Conquerer after he invaded England in 1066, reopened to the public last month following a landmark $37 million restoration. The castle’s ...

Before our current, carbon-fueled global warming trend took off during the 20th century, the most consequential temperature bump in recorded history was the Medieval Warm Period. This week, scientists ...