Europe’s medieval cities weren’t designed to impress modern travelers, yet centuries later they feel almost unreal. Stone ...

It’s a common scene in many films set in medieval Europe: a wooden cart wheeling its way through a jeering crowd of townsfolk ...

Europe is filled with modern capitals and bustling cities, but scattered across the continent are towns that feel untouched ...

How did medieval Europe’s money system really work? While gold and silver coins were important, credit-based money systems ...

Servers bring out dishes of lentil soup during the recreation of a medieval-style harvest feast staged by Archaeology Now Houston. As many of us prepare this week to sit down for our Thanksgiving ...

The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast. Archaeologists recently found the wreck of an ...

Europe is home to countless medieval cities. From the fortified city of Carcassonne, to the leaning towers of Bologna, Europe ...

In Death and the Miser, a Dutch painting from around 1490, a hideous skeletal figure—a medieval version of the grim reaper—comes knocking at a man’s bedroom door. As death watches, the dying miser ...

Sebastian Jäger, "Wound Man" (c. 1580), ink and paint on parchment, painted in Vienna, Austria, held in UCLA's Louise M. Darling Medical Library, MS Benjamin 8, fol. IVv (photo by Jack Hartnell) Even ...

Amateur detectorists exploring the historic fields near Gietrzwałd, Poland, have unearthed a remarkably rare medieval flail weapon known as a kiścień - only the fourth such artifact ever recorded in ...

Usually, when people hear the term “illuminated manuscript,” they think of enormous, leather-bound books, produced painstakingly by the hands of medieval European monks, and filled to the brim with ...

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