“They were very keen on protecting mothers from harm,” medieval history scholar Sara McDougall told Slate. Texts from the time indicate that such extreme measures would usually be performed on ...

"The saffron retains its distinctive aroma after 527 years submerged." While excavating a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea, ...

Soar above Lucerne’s historic Chapel Bridge, the oldest covered wooden bridge in Europe. This drone footage captures the ...

The stone castles that we recognize today as emblematically medieval appeared from the 11th and 12th centuries onward, having developed out of the comparatively simple earlier fortifications.