The Middle Ages were filled with battles, breakthroughs, and turning points that shaped the world we live in today. In this video, we count down 50 of the most crucial events that defined the medieval ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age, demonstrating advanced ...

The disease continues to affect populations around the world today. The Black Death of 1348 famously killed half of the people in London within 18 months, with bodies piled five-deep in mass graves.

Michael Wolgemut, Dance of Death in the «Nuremberg Chronicle, (ca. 1493). Photo: Ernst Bjerke.

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Turmoil, crisis and the creation of a state, from Magna Carta to the horrors of the Black Death. Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning ...

The Black Death is believed to have claimed its first victim in Britain in the summer of 1348. It spread slowly at first but then struck Exeter and later Bristol. By December 1349, almost the ...

New historical research is revealing how medieval mass tourism helped revive key aspects of England’s economy after the Black Death. At least a third of the population died as bubonic plague ...

The period was also marked by growing personal freedom, with the banning of slavery within England by the English church in 1102 and the rapid decline of serfdom after the Black Death of 1348-49 ...

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What the Middle Ages can teach us about humanity and faith Historian Mark Gregory Pegg’s book ‘Beatrice’s Last Smile’ offers a new look at the historical period through its people and ...

The dietary and hygienic changes that people underwent as a result of the Black Plague could be the reason why human being are so fond of junk food 700 years later, scientists say.