COLUMBUS, Ohio – Northern European men living during the early Middle Ages were nearly as tall as their modern-day American descendants, a finding that defies conventional wisdom about progress in ...

One of the most misunderstood periods of history is the Middle Ages, which ranged from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

Researchers have unraveled the mysterious origins of silver that was used to make coins during the early medieval period in Europe. For a study published in the journal Antiquity, a team of experts ...

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Archaeologists have discovered a monumental early medieval cemetery that could be linked to a Christian saint. The burial ground was uncovered during excavations conducted as part of an improvement ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The hoard may include up to 20,000 coins, as well as pearls and rings from the Middle Ages of ...

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. The “Saturday Night Live” sketch “Medieval Barber Theodoric of York” ...

What would you have named your children if you had lived in the Middle Ages? And what would your own name have been? In his book Personnamnen i de medeltida svenska runinskrifterna (Personal names in ...

Kreiner is a professor of history at the University of Georgia specializing in the early Middle Ages, and the author of The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction It’s time for ...

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Historians recently unearthed some "health hacks" dating back to the Middle Ages – and some sound like they came straight off TikTok. The database, called the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine, ...