Life for the average person in the Middle Ages was marked by constant hardship and uncertainty. Disease, poor sanitation, and limited medical knowledge made survival difficult. War and social ...

From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in ...

These days, it’s easy to take cleanliness for granted — we can shower whenever we please and choose from an endless array of soaps, shampoos, and skincare products. But life in the Middle Ages was a ...

The fall you took off the monkey bars in fourth grade may feel a lifetime ago, but to scientists who study skeletal remains, these pivotal — and sore — moments can be important clues as to how we ...

Shortly after Christmas last year, Gina Hurley and Eric Ensley visited the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s facility on Winchester Avenue where one of the world’s great collections of ...

What type of images come to mind when you think of medieval art? Knights and ladies? Biblical scenes? Cathedrals? It’s probably not some unfortunate man in the throes of vomiting. It might surprise ...

Whenever a fantasy story treads too far into gruesome violence or plain old human exploitation, storytellers like to trot out four little words: “But it’s historically accurate.” That was the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. While The Sims has become a series known for controlling the lives of little computer people as they putter around little computer suburbia, the next ...