A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

Conspiracy theories were not invented in the modern era and were widespread throughout the Middle Ages. Rumors about powerful rulers, religious groups, and political rivals often circulated across ...

The idea that medieval people routinely emptied chamber pots straight into the street as their primary method of waste ...

A Tennessee business that looks like it stepped straight out of the Middle Ages.In downtown Tracy City, up on the mountain in Grundy County, there’s a company s ...

While the annual holiday initially began in the Middle Ages, over the years it has evolved into a new kind of celebration.

The period known as the Middle Ages was defined by more than knights and warfare.

The city sits just below a Scandinavian castle complex, so the ring could have come from a royal.

One of the most misunderstood periods of history is the Middle Ages, which ranged from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the start of the Renaissance in the 15th century or so ...

When people think of the European Middle Ages, it often brings to mind grinding poverty, superstition and darkness. But the reality of the 1,000-year period from 500 to 1500 was much more complex.