Workers renovating a fence wall near a historic Cathedral in Poland have found the remains of two medieval children, one of whom shows signs of “vampire burial”. Belief in vampirism was prevalent in ...

The margins of a medieval manuscript from a convent in Naples, Italy, are decorated with doodles of what are apparently devils, a farm animal and a person that were likely drawn by children, a new ...

Workers recently stumbled across a grisly gravesite near a historic cathedral in Chelm, Poland. While removing tree roots for an ongoing garden renovation project at the Palace of the Uniate Bishops, ...

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Numerous traditions concerning the children of Adam and Eve survive in medieval Irish texts, most notably the Irish Sex Aetates Mundi, Lebor Gabála Érenn, the prose and metrical Banshenchas and the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 15th-century book on manners, newly digitized by The British Library, is filled with rules that ...

On a terrace overlooking a lake in southern France, a medieval community buried their dead. The deceased were placed in deep pits, their bodies arranged just so. Centuries passed and the cemetery was ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- All hail the queen. Medieval Times' first ever queen, Queen Dona Maria Isabella, will be visiting the Staten Island Children’s Museum for a story reading and meet and greet with ...

Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green "children of Woolpit", who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk and ...

“My daughters ought not to laugh and speak much with strangers, nor dance. They ought always to be at home, and not be gadding about. They must not stand at the door. Most strongly I beg…they must ...

Des Plaines, IL-Des Plaines History Center's Interpretive Curator Emma Marston has already "traveled" to Ancient Egypt and Ancient China with her seasonal children's program, "Summer Adventures for ...

Unless you're on vacation in Bermuda this week, you'll have noticed that the freakish warm spell is over, and Middle Tennessee is back to seasonally appropriate frigid temperatures. If you need a ...