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A major archaeological breakthrough in southern Russia is capturing global attention. Researchers believe they have located the legendary lost medieval city of Magas, once the capital of the powerful ...

Since 1977, students from the University of Oklahoma’s English department held the first Medieval Fair on the South Oval, ...

In a remarkable archaeological find, researchers have uncovered the remains of the lost medieval town of Stolzenberg hidden deep within a Polish forest. Located near the modern settlement of Zagrody, ...

Whenever a fantasy story treads too far into gruesome violence or plain old human exploitation, storytellers like to trot out four little words: “But it’s historically accurate.” That was the ...

Edmund Ironside was an ill-fated king during a violent and turbulent time in the history of the Anglo-Saxons. But is the ...

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We often romanticize the Middle Ages, seeing them as a time of chivalry, gallant knights, and castles. Beneath all of this ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A historian of medieval Germany has won Western Michigan University's Otto Gründler Book Prize for his book studying authority and justice across a millennium. Dr. Jonathan R. Lyon, ...

The Middle Ages were a time in human history that occurred roughly from the year 500 to the year 1500 CE, and is commonly associated with knights, castles, and princesses. It's become a common ...