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 ...

You know what they say: the longer you stick around somewhere, no matter if it seems to have come straight out of a fairytale ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I I am, without a doubt, one of the nerdiest people I know. My love for all things old-world, fantastical, and medieval is endless ...

Long ago I gave up looking for an untouristy, half-timbered medieval German town, but a few years back I stumbled upon it in the sleepy town of Erfurt. The capital of the German region of Thuringia, ...

More than 500 years ago, while a medieval scribe was carefully copying a religious manuscript by hand, a cat walked across the pages while the ink was still ...

For centuries, medieval castles – hulking, isolated triumphs of masonry – have held a special place in the Western imagination, evoking at once a sense of history, fantasy, war and romance. They are ...

My students tend to imagine the Middle Ages as something like the “Kingdom Come” or “Total War” video games: an age of utter political chaos, when swords and daggers ruled, and masculinity and ...

A study of hundreds of specimens from European archaeological digs found two species of whales that are no longer present in the continent’s waters. By Kate Golembiewski Industrial-scale whaling in ...

Long ago I gave up looking for an untouristy, half-timbered medieval German town, but a few years back I stumbled upon it in the sleepy town of Erfurt. The capital of the German region of Thuringia, ...