Italian Carabinieri look as firefighters work to rescue a construction worker from under the debris of the partially ...

In the riverside town of Vidin in Bulgaria, I was briefly king of the castle. I had the medieval citadel to myself. Looming ...

And let's not forget those brutal punishments that make horror movie scenes seem tame. The Medieval period, often idealized ...

In many medieval towns, public bathhouses were common, especially from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Men and women (sometimes together, sometimes separately) bathed in large wooden tubs filled with ...

To join a local tennis club (that at St. Briac is especially good) costs you about $4 a month, and the privileges of splendid golf links amount to a like sum. Casinos, of course, are the same the ...

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 ...

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

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures. The fictional tale of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which she gets ...

Archaeologists in Spain recently published findings revealing the remarkable contents of bearded vultures' nests – including traces of the Middle Ages. The results, published in the journal Ecology on ...

I recently had the privilege to build the Medieval Horse Knight Castle set. It's a fairly new release that is joined by only a few other sets aimed at early Renaissance times—including this full-on ...

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