This video explores a collection of medieval jokes, offering a glimpse into how people in the Middle Ages found humor in everyday life. Far from being uniformly grim, the period produced witty ...

The ring, made in part from deep-blue stone, was likely owned by a high-status woman during the Middle Ages.

This video highlights a series of inaccurate or exaggerated beliefs often associated with the medieval world, using humor to separate fact from fiction. Popular culture has long painted the era as ...

Rather than focusing on the risk to the Bayeux Tapestry in its forthcoming loan to the British Museum, David Musgrove argues ...

Archaeologists in Strasbourg, France uncover evidence tracing the city’s evolution from a Roman military settlement to a modern urban center.

The Städel Museum in Frankfurt has reunited one of Germany’s most significant medieval sculptures, the Altenberg Madonna, ...

Athens boasts numerous significant Byzantine churches, mostly dating from the 10th to 12th centuries, featuring distinct Middle Byzantine architecture like dome-on-square designs and intricate ...

Queen. Bowie. Heath Ledger. No wonder A Knight’s Tale is a classic - FLASHBACKS: Millennials understood that a movie that ...

Tests indicate the meter-long (3.3-foot) weapon likely belonged to a 12th-century Crusader who brought it from Europe.

Many of the critiques leveled at universities do not map neatly onto the internal dynamics of our disciplines, and some ...

ASTANA – The national exhibition titled “New Discoveries in the Archaeology of Kazakhstan” opened Feb. 14 in Astana, presenting recent research by the Margulan Institute of Archaeology alongside rare ...

Explore the transformation of insurance from Babylonian contracts to modern policies, highlighting key developments like fire and life insurance.