In 1272 CE, a Hungarian duke was murdered in cold blood. Details surrounding the grisly killing of the 13th century Hungarian ...

A new study reveals that modern ideas about the Black Death’s rapid spread across Asia stem from a centuries-old ...

The revelation centers on a text called a "maqāma" - an Arabic literary genre featuring traveling tricksters - written by the poet and historian Ibn al-Wardi in 1348-49 in Aleppo, according to the new ...

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

A new study shows how a medieval text was misread as history, shaping how the Black Death’s spread was understood for ...

Stirling Castle, Scotland. Their identities remain a mystery - but Injuries found on them suggest that they all suffered brutally violent deaths. Dr Jo Buckberry, a battle trauma expert at the ...

A worker who had been trapped for 11 hours in the partial collapse of a medieval tower in the heart of Rome has died after ...

The man was trapped for several hours after part of the Torre dei Conti, on the edge of the Roman Forum, gave way.

Firefighters late Monday finally managed to extract a worker from beneath rubble inside a medieval tower that partially ...

Romania's Foreign Ministry has mourned the death of a construction worker after the partial collapse of the 13th century ...