While fast food is defined today by fries and neon signs, its Medieval ancestors offered a completely different experience ...

Europe is filled with incredible medieval places that continue to preserve centuries of history and architecture. From ...

We’ve Been Getting it All Wrong Medieval Europe (roughly 500–1500 CE) is often misunderstood—thanks in part to movies, myths, ...

What they found: Scientists detected unique chemical patterns in teeth from medieval England that reveal childhood starvation ...

Old-fashioned sleuthing and modern technology have led to the discovery of a manuscript containing a poem written by a farm ...

X-ray spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and radiocarbon dating filled in many gaps about the person’s identity.

What passed for fast food in medieval times was far from today's standards, offering a rough, gritty contrast to the ...

Without good dental care, teeth tend to suffer. An abundance of archaeological evidence has shown that poor oral health was ...

In cathedrals, such as Canterbury Cathedral in England, colorful stained glass and illustrated hagiographies tell the stories ...

Daniel M. Lavery cofounded and co-edited the site The Toast and is the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, Something That May Shock ...

Horse show, medieval camp, and artisan market: the Medieval Hop Festival returns to La Houblonnière in Villiers-sous-Grez, ...