Growing up in the Middle Ages was no fairy tale. In this video, we explore what life was really like for children during ...

In a September 12 Facebook post translated from Polish, the Lublin Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments says it is “without a doubt” that at least one of the children found at the 13th-century ...

Some medieval “vampire children” uncovered in previous excavations were found buried with a padlock attached to the foot, indicating the people feared the dead could spring back to life.

Stewart T. Monti Mary and Sir Edward Stewart T. Monti’s poetic children’s book brings European folklore and 11th-century adventures to life with heart and charm. Despite it being a children ...

On a terrace overlooking a lake in southern France, a medieval community buried their dead. The deceased were placed in deep pits, their bodies arranged just so. Centuries passed and the cemetery ...

The 17 bodies, including 11 children, found at bottom of medieval well by construction workers show the “real horror” of antisemitic violence, researchers say.

Swahili people maintained matrilineal family burial gardens such as this one in Faza, Kenya. Chapurukha Kusimba, 2012 under CC BY-ND 4.0. A new analysis of medieval DNA has revealed that around ...