Medieval News

"A team of scent scientists" have developed a new body spray deodorant that promises to give you that medieval warrior smell! Nors...

Call it a card player's dream. A complete set of 52 silver playing cards gilded in gold and dating back 400 years has been discovered...

Archaeologists have been impressed by the huge treasure trove of artefacts that have been discovered so far during excavations of a crannog ...

Underwear dating from medieval times that was found under flooring of an Austrian castle is hardly racy by the standards of today. But ...

Archaeologists in Cologne, Germany have uncovered a fascinating 13th-century Hebrew inscription on a lintel stone in the basement of a hom...

Playing ball games is an activity played by children around the world. While today’s parents might worry that their sons and daughters migh...

Could Cleopatra have used these ancient glass bottles? Were these 3,000 year old figures ‘servants’ in the afterlife? Questions which exc...

Clothes in the early Iron Age were not grey and dull, as previously assumed. They were colourful and patterned. This new discovery comes ...

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) was an artist, inventor, scientist, architect, engineer, writer and even a musician. Now we know that he was...

Humans may have undergone a gradual rather than an abrupt transition from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, according to a new stud...

A study of male and female mummies has revealed the fashion-conscious Egyptians made use of a fat-based product to keep their hair in place....

If you’ve ever fancied yourself as the next dashing Mr Darcy or Elizabeth Bennett, Barley Hall in York is the place for you. The city’s medi...

It’s fair to assume that Valdemar the Conqueror, while ruling over Denmark in the early 1200s, ate like a king. But, what was the diet like ...

The Lewis Chessmen are the most famous and important chess pieces in history. They have a long historical and scholarly record, part of whic...

We are all familiar with praying monks, but playing monks? A Book of Hours from Flanders finds them deep in a game of “Blind Man’s Bluff,” w...

The Corning Museum of Glass in New York State has opened a new exhibit displaying over a hundred examples of glass that were made in the Mid...

Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants – but despised by noblemen – during the Middle Ages wa...

A new book on Byzantine children is providing fascinating insights into how people viewed childhood and adolescence in the Middle Ages. Bec...

This 3 minute video from WatchMojo.com shows some interesting aspects of medieval daily life, including a game, stone sculpting, food, fight...