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 ...

The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...

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

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is a play written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play dramatizes the murder of king Claudius by his nephew, Hamlet ...

As the seasons turn and the nights draw in, the countryside of the British Isles seems alive with omens: an owl's screech, or a bat above the hedgerows. For centuries, such creatures were cast as ...

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 ...