Tricksters dance through the stories of cultures around the world, causing chaos, teaching lessons, and making us laugh at ...

Scholars of Scandinavian studies at the Cluster of Excellence are investigating cultural memories of pre-Christian Nordic ...

Long before stories of full moons and silver bullets, the Greeks told a far older tale of the first man cursed to become a ...

At a cathedral in York, England, expert stonemasons are combining cutting-edge technology with ancient technique to bring beastly grotesques back to life. Over the centuries, many of the stone details ...

Medieval medical practices were mostly based on superstition ... In a world where science couldn't explain most phenomena, ...

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser confirmed that the studio considered a game set in the Middle Ages. The proposed idea, which included knights and mythological elements, remained in the discussion ...

Hear ye! Hear ye! A new history fact has been debunked! According to bubo-bursting research by the German Museum of Medicine ...

Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the ...

Simon Marsh said the database would broaden understanding of historic sites related to the War of the Roses [Kate Bradbrook/BBC] A new database documenting monuments to a 15th Century English conflict ...

A new database documenting monuments to a 15th Century English conflict will keep alive the "folklore of local legends", a historian said. The War of the Roses took place 1455-1487, with the Battle of ...