Duncan Sayer would like to thank Dr Andrew Richardson who is a co-director of the east Kent excavation project. The ...

Hanging in the Middle Ages often didn’t end with death. Bodies were placed in iron cages called gibbeted and left to rot in ...

Amid the Fenland rain, the Whittlesea Bear Festival and its Morris dancers furrow worthily on By Will Lloyd It’s a wet Sunday ...

Medieval punishments are usually described as relics of a brutal past. In reality, many were never eliminated — only rebranded. The methods evolved, but the underlying logic stayed intact. Modern ...

Danish archaeologists recently unearthed dozens of medieval graves, shedding light on how disease and hardship shaped life in early Christian Denmark. Officials from the Moesgaard Museum in Beder, ...

The death penalty is a travesty when it is used against anyone. It is called the ultimate penalty for a reason. In the American legal tradition, it is only to be imposed after a careful weighing of ...

The medieval prayer book looks modern from the outside, with its sleek white leather cover added by a conservator for safekeeping. Open the pages, however, and peer into a bygone era. There, images of ...

News 4 has crews out Monday to keep an eye on the road conditions following the winter storm. News 4 has crews out Monday to keep an eye on the road conditions following the winter storm.

Tucked away in the charming streets of St. Augustine stands a yellow building that houses something completely unexpected – a comprehensive collection of humanity’s most disturbing inventions for ...

A Belgian academic has uncovered writings by a 14th-century theologian who called the shroud a "clear" and "patent" fake. Installation view of "Tent of the Shroud" with a life-sized digital replica of ...

Stephanie Brown has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Manuel Eisner does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...