Middle Ages

The Middle Ages seem to us to be a completely awful age in which everyone simply suffered. However, there were…

Some of history's most cruel and painful torture devices were invented during medieval times.

From jousting, to animal-baiting, medieval people valued bloody and brutal entertainment.

We perceive the Middle Ages as one of the most unpleasant periods in the history of humankind: dirt, disease, hunger,…

Gearrannanis a crofting township on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

New DNA analysis has solved the mystery of a mediaeval Finnish warrior buried in women's clothes.

Several Roman technologies faded or were lost throughout the Middle Ages in large parts of the Roman Empire.

Medical cannibalism is the consumption or use of the human body, dead or alive, to treat diseases.

When people talk about the Middle Ages, castles, knights, crusades, plague, and unsanitary conditions are most often mentioned.

Many people believe that many of the advantages of civilization originated from the 17th - 19th centuries when scientific development…