Europe is filled with castles that once belonged to royalty, knights, and nobles, and now, some of them open their grand ...

A 2,000-year-old Roman toilet in Switzerland yielded an unexpected discovery: 19 large seeds from a fruit medieval Europe was ...

David M. Perry is a contributing columnist for the Minnesota Star Tribune focusing on disabilities, history, higher education and other issues. He is a historian and author.

In 732, a Frankish army under Charles Martel met Umayyad forces near Tours. The battle that followed helped define the ...

Archaeologists in Spain discovered medieval artifacts in bearded vulture nests, including a complete 13th-century esparto ...

(THE CONVERSATION) My students tend to imagine the Middle Ages as something like the “Kingdom Come” or “Total War” video games: an age of utter political chaos, when swords and daggers ruled, and ...

Time Out’s top pick for Europe’s most underrated holiday destination is Izola in Slovenia . This little medieval town is ...

Virtual Alchemy has announced Band of Crusaders, a strategy RPG set in a medieval Europe plagued by devils and twisted cults. It will be available for PC via Steam. A release date was not announced.

In medieval Europe, a rivalry between two assertive cultures — Christians and Jews, who both considered themselves “God’s Chosen People” — gave rise to modern antisemitism, argues Yale’s Ivan G.