New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...

Archaeologists are to excavate what they believe to be a rare example of a medieval crannog settlement in the Highlands. Crannogs were built on artificial islands made of stone or timber in lochs.

Sean Bean's characters have suffered brutal deaths on TV and in films. The most notable has been 2010's Black Death, in which ...

We don’t know how the the life of this bear was, but its end came in the darkness, at the bottom of a pit in a narrow Romanian cave. There were no claw marks on the stone, no signs of a struggle, just ...

In new book, UChicago’s Ada Palmer explores popular misunderstandings of the Renaissance and historical myths used for ...

In 11th-century England, a saint with an extremely dissolute past became a cultural and religious symbol that broke ...

A respected Manx historian has debunked the long-standing tale surrounding one of the Isle of Man’s most puzzling historic ...

Thinking of visiting Europe in May, but aren't quite sure where to go? There are plenty of places to choose from depending on ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

Gregg Wallace and his wife Anne-Marie Sterpini are seemingly putting on a united front as he posted a photo of her for the ...