I love going away in Britain in winter, ideally somewhere small, quiet and seasonally appropriate – the sort of village that ...

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures. The fictional tale of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which she gets ...

Scientists have discovered over 200 medieval artefacts in an unlikely place - vulture nests. The amazing hoard of 600-year-old treasures were found in the abandoned nests of bearded vultures in Spain.

The break-in happened at Grade II* listed Maunsel House in Bridgwater, Somerset, between 2pm and 4pm on Sunday (August 24). It came shortly after the 13-bedroom property, thought to date from the late ...

Stephanie Brown has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Manuel Eisner does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...

The plague — aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence — is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake Tahoe resident. But before you put on your 17th century “air-purifying” ...

Observe a striking local style. Many arrive in Abu Dhabi through the Kohn Pedersen Fox-designed Zayed International Airport. And while that is a perfect architectural ambassador for the modern-day ...