The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...

Ancient Romans cleaned their togas with stale urine collected in public pots. Medieval Europeans believed bathing was ...

A team of volunteers have helped to restore a medieval well and bathing pool near the small village of Blagdon in Somerset with the help of a ...

British bathing habits were brought to you by the Italians, Muslims and the mucky-pups who worked up a froth down the stews. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...

Millions of pilgrims, led by naked, ash-smeared Hindu holy men, plunged themselves into the icy cold waters of the Ganges to mark the beginning of the Kumbh Mela. The bathing ritual dates back to ...

A team of volunteers have helped to restore a medieval well and bathing pool near the small village of Blagdon in Somerset ...