In todays deep dive into the world of Medieval Medical Care Historian Matt Lewis and Kevin Goodman - the time travelling medicine man - take a look into Battlefield Surgery to discover the grizlzly ...

Dark-brown flakes discovered inside a 1,900-year-old Roman glass vial are the first direct evidence for the use of human ...

Have you ever wondered how a trebuchet works? Well, instead of reading up on the subject in a book or online, you can just play Age of Empires 4, which will feature around an hour of distinct segments ...

Let me take you back to the year 2000, perhaps the peak of me naively thinking things were going to be great forever. Smash Mouth's All Star was constantly on the radio. It sometimes still snowed in ...

Figgy pudding has become one of the most recognizable dishes of the holiday season, even for people who have never tasted it. Immortalized in carols and often associated with Victorian England, the ...

Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. One of the most popular TV shows on Netflix, a miniseries about the life and death of an obscure president, spares viewers ...

While many believed that medieval societies were racially homogeneous, research in the field has indicated that they were actually much more diverse. “This work provides really compelling ...

A hidden gem on Chicago's North Side is a place where skeletons and skulls aren't scary, they're educational – the International Museum of Surgical Science. "People have heard of us, but they don't ...

Joe Grantham is a contributor from the UK with a degree in Classical Studies. His love for gaming is only rivaled by a deep passion for medieval history, which often seeps into his articles. With over ...

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 ...

Emerging in monasteries and convents, apothecaries were later incorporated into guilds to serve the general public. But the medicine they prescribed was much different than what we know today. The ...