The widespread outbreak of plague struck between 1347 and 1351, killing tens of millions of people, resulting in the loss of ...

New research finds that the diversity of plants in parts of medieval Europe peaked in the centuries before the Black Death, at a time when small farms and pastures existed alongside grasslands and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Written records had indicated that about 12,000 people were buried in large pits outside the city of Erfurt, but their exact ...

A remarkable discovery in a Swedish bog revealed the well-preserved remains of a medieval man who had been dead for centuries ...