University of CambridgeThe “London Medieval Murder Map” that was created by the University of Cambridge. Life definitely wasn’t easy in the Middle Ages. It was a period of history ...

Today: a nifty interactive "murder map" of medieval London. In July of 1316, a priest with a hankering for fresh apples sneaked into a walled garden in the Cripplegate area of London to help ...

Completed in 1459, the Mappa Mundi is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the world. Almost twice as large as the famous ...

From Geoffrey Chaucer to Thomas Becket, brutal murders - or rumours of them - rocked medieval Britain. Now, scientists have released an interactive map that shines a light on the 14th-century ...

CREDIT: University of Cambridge/Violence Research Centre “A medieval university city such as Oxford had a deadly mix of conditions,” lead murder map investigator and University of Cambridge ...

As it turns out, the map was indeed too good to be true. In 1966, just months after it was publicized, scholars pointed out inconsistencies with other medieval sources and raised questions about ...

Oxford medieval murder map (University of Cambridge) Many students, he said, also belonged to regional fraternities that were found to be an additional source of conflict. The new interactive map ...

The Rungholt Project team is using what archeologist Bente Majchczack calls a 'cart with the magnetic probes' to map a long-buried medieval city. (Dirk Bienen-Scholt) So far, the team has mapped ...

Medieval Oxford’s “lethally violent” student population made the city England’s “murder capital”, a new crime map has revealed. Oxford’s student population was by far “the most ...