A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

The Italian city has a reputation for being gray, but its architecture is far from dull.

The people who didn't want to follow him during his invasion of Italy stayed behind and became ... The Almalyk-dere necropolis is the area's largest early medieval burial ground.

Let’s be honest, daily life for a medieval serf in England ... which meant that during the summer months it could be as early as 3am. And it didn’t end until dusk. Work in the fields was ...

Their findings reveal that olive trees were already being exploited in Eastern Sicily as early as the 18th century ... in Sicily during this period. Medieval transformations (5th–14th century ...

Chris Wickham is one of the best-known Marxist historians of the Middle Ages. In his book The Donkey and the Boat, he offers an ambitious account of the internal dynamics of the precapitalist ...

Music of the early Medieval period began as a single line of notes ... poetic songs and travelling freely in France and Northern Italy. The songs of the Troubadours can be broadly divided into three ...

City Tales: Medieval Era will be available in Early Access on Steam on May 22, 2025. With an organic building system, you're free to shape vast, living cities beyond the usual grid. Manage ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

While many tourists flock to Italy’s more famous destinations ... From ancient cave dwellings to medieval villages frozen in time, travellers looking for something truly different can find ...

City Tales - Medieval Era is the next worthy city builder to compete for your time, and it's coming to Early Access on Steam on May 22. As revealed during the Future Games Show Spring Showcase ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some manuscripts, rather than skins from the local boars and deer ...