Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of medieval commerce and a 16th-century civic building’s foundations. Experts ...

Despite a majority of people living in the peasant class during Medieval times, the average diet was fairly varied. Some ...

Pluscarden Abbey has always intrigued me. Just 15 minutes from my home in Elgin, it is Britain’s only medieval monastery ...

Two people buried in early medieval England had West African ancestry, experts have revealed, in a discovery that rewrites British history. The find provides the first direct evidence of a connection ...

The 11th-century embroidery known as the Bayeux Tapestry is set to be loaned to the British Museum next September, despite ...

Birds of prey in medieval Britain relied far more heavily on scavenging human waste than previously thought, according to research that analyzed more than 30 ancient bird skeletons. Ancient red kites, ...

The Lords of the Isles were powerful chiefs with royal pretensions, treating English and Scottish kings as if they were on a ...

DNA recovered from skeletons buried in a 7th-century cemetery on the south coast of England has revealed that the buried individuals had west African ancestry, raising further questions about early ...

Long before plush leather seats and soundproof limousine cabins came along, the back of an ambling horse was considered the most comfortable ride in town. Scientists have now traced the origins of ...

Interested in a whirlwind investigation of the major medieval sites throughout England? Earn six hours credit in just over three weeks (and escape the heat of Arkansas)!

The white arrow points to suspected cancer metastases from the spine of a skeleton unearthed from a medieval cemetery. Photo: Jenna Dittmar/University of Cambridge Cancer may have been a bigger menace ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute for higher education faculty "Law and Culture in Medieval England" is hosted by Western Michigan University. Due to the ongoing health crisis ...