When we picture medieval cities, we often imagine crowded streets and stone buildings – but animals were everywhere too. In this video, we explore the wide range of animals that lived alongside people ...

Scholars say handwriting errors in a 900-year-old document changes the understanding of "The Song of Wade", a lost English poem.

A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars, including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge ...

I’d recently been on a perfume jag, wreathing myself in enticing scents from au-courant brands, but I liked this fragrance ...

In the windswept steppe of northeastern Mongolia, archaeologists have unearthed a rare window into daily life along the medieval frontier of the Liao Empire. Excavations at a remote garrison site ...

The Egyptians treated them with reverence and adoration having, first domesticated them 4,000 years ago. Since then the small, carnivorous mammals have played a major part in religion, folklore ...

A researcher in the Global Irish Studies Initiative at Georgetown University (GIS) explored the early medieval history of animal disease in Ireland at a talk March 27. Rachel Singer, a Ph.D. candidate ...

A new medieval builder, City Tales is ideal for Manor Lords fans who want something peaceful, and now it has an early-access release date.

Without being able to get into the heads of animals, it’s hard to say for sure. But instances of pig painters, whale crooners and bird sculptors certainly make it seem plausible.

"Strange Creatures: The art of unknown animals" was a 2015 exhibition that explored how imagery has been used to bring newly discovered animals into the public eye.

Medieval wall paintings considered the finest of their type surviving from late 13th-century France, with close style links to the court of Henry III, have been revealed in all their multi ...

“Mythical, Divine, Demonic” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art explores the role of animals in South Asian art.