Travelers often overlook tiny European countries, but, as I discovered on a recent trip to Luxembourg—Europe's seventh-smallest nation, with a population of just 699,000—there's much to discover in ...

Servers bring out dishes of lentil soup during the recreation of a medieval-style harvest feast staged by Archaeology Now Houston. As many of us prepare this week to sit down for our Thanksgiving ...

You know what they say: the longer you stick around somewhere, no matter if it seems to have come straight out of a fairytale ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I I am, without a doubt, one of the nerdiest people I know. My love for all things old-world, fantastical, and medieval is endless ...

For centuries, medieval castles – hulking, isolated triumphs of masonry – have held a special place in the Western imagination, evoking at once a sense of history, fantasy, war and romance. They are ...

Post may contain affiliate links; we may receive compensation if you click links to those products. This has no impact on how offers are presented. Our site does not include all offers available.

Long ago I gave up looking for an untouristy, half-timbered medieval German town, but a few years back I stumbled upon it in the sleepy town of Erfurt. The capital of the German region of Thuringia, ...

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 masculinity and ...

More than 500 years ago, while a medieval scribe was carefully copying a religious manuscript by hand, a cat walked across the pages while the ink was still ...

And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...