Archaeologists were working on “La Place,” a medieval northern city gate that was demolished in the 1700s, when they found a ...

That’s not all they found. Highway construction resulted in discoveries from multiple eras of history, including the Roman ...

A lot has been written about the medieval period and a lot of it generally portrays the people as being unsophisticated, cruel, and ignorant. Superstition was a dominating force that filled peoples ...

Although that period usually refers to Europe, there are a surprising number of medieval castles in Africa and Asia as well. Castles in the Americas, however, usually date from after the age of ...

The artifact was remarkably preserved for a millennium in anaerobic clay on a private estate near the city of Montfoort ...

For years, the claim that medieval peasants worked only around 150 days a year has circulated online. The claim has taken a variety of forms, among them multiple memes that juxtaposed the claim ...

In medieval times, astrology was considered a serious science, a branch of astronomy. ... But in the medieval period, people were really thinking of astrology as part of astronomy.

What's False. However, other economists and economic historians believe medieval laborers had a significantly longer working year, averaging around 250 or more days.