The hair-raising reality of the Middle Ages is a grisly one that contrasts greatly with ... However, coarse bread and a lack ...

Monks were even required by religious rule to bathe several times a year — which, for the Middle Ages, was a sign of regular ...

When you think about history, your mind jumps to sprawling cities like Rome or Cairo. But some of the most fascinating ...

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

In Milan, bones that piled under a hospital over a half-century shed light on the health and habits of some of the ...

Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?

Epic tales, poems of praise, and fantastic legends swirled around famous knights in the Middle Ages. Their bravery in battle and tournament victories inspired incredible accounts of both fact and ...