Records of the prison date back to the late 1400s under King Henry VII, according to Smithsonian Magazine. A parliamentarian’s servant called it “a most vile prison” where their legs were shackled and ...

Lost for 800 years, a medieval castle has been unearthed in a remoter part of the UK once home to kings and the mighty Lords ...

It sounds like a case for Sherlock Holmes: a 900-year-old medieval manor mysteriously vanishes, only to be uncovered later by British archaeologists. The ancient site has been stripped of its ...

Warwick, a charming English town nestled in the West Midlands, is renowned for its plethora of historic buildings. This ...

Greg Jenner is joined by guests Prof Brett Whalen and comedian Alison Spittle in 9th-century Rome to explore the early ...

AN archaeological dig in a Ryedale village has unearthed secrets that could reshape our understanding of Roman and medieval life in North Yorkshire.

London and Roman tradition forced cemeteries to be placed outside the old City Walls. The archeological findings of the Jewish cemetery are exactly where the maps and the accounts placed it on the ...

A medieval London church tower has been suspended 45ft above the ground in what has been described as a “never-seen-before ...

Do England’s medieval graffiti drawings reveal a lingering devotion to paganism? As reported by the BBC, the four-year-old Lincolnshire medieval graffiti project has uncovered more than 28,000 ...

Archaeologists in Pembrokeshire, Wales, have uncovered the remains of 17 skeletons in the cemetery of what they believe are the remains of the Friary of St. Saviour's, archaeologists said. "The friary ...

When we think of medieval friars, we may well picture Robin Hood’s jolly Friar Tuck, known for his rotund figure and love of food and drink. But it turns out some of these monks were full of more than ...

U.K. prosecutors claim that a woman arranged a “medieval duel” to the death between her husband and her lover to win her affection. Asta Juskauskiene, 35, had just left her husband when she met ...