Popular culture often paints Medieval Western Europe as a dark, backward time of ignorance, but is that accurate? This video ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Our understanding of the spread of the Black Death across Asia has for centuries been based on a misinterpretation of a ...

Archaeologists have found a lost Silk Road settlement including the remains of a submerged necropolis within the world's ...

Beneath a bustling European city, archaeologists have unearthed a perfectly preserved medieval world.