Spotted off the coast of Denmark, the "Svaelget 2" is a cog, a kind of large trading vessel used in the Middle Ages. Experts ...

Behind the castles and chivalry, the Middle Ages were defined by extreme cruelty, legalized torture, and ruthless punishment.

The shipwreck is exceptionally preserved and provides the first archaeological confirmation of features seen in illustrations ...

The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast. Archaeologists recently found the wreck of an ...

A long-standing myth about medieval history is that the Middle Ages were intellectually dark. Science supposedly took a hiatus between the demise of Rome and the rise of Copernican astronomy and ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

The combination of filigree and granulation techniques arrived in Norway during the early Middle Ages from the Byzantine Empire, partly via Carolingian goldsmithing traditions. The Carolingian period, ...

SYRACUSE, NY -- You can imagine the sturdy wood tables and massive bar supporting the tankards and flagons of many a merry ale drinker of olden times. Or maybe even a group of Vikings in the corner ...