Mystorical

Many visit the Tower of London each year to see where the royals once lived… and died. But few realize that the castle was also the home...

Fierce warriors, Druid priests, and intricate artwork are part of a mysterious yet enduring culture that got its start in European...

Excavating a site for housing development in the UK, builders stumbled across a rare find that has flabbergasted historians. While...

Why were the deceased sometimes buried in their beds during the Middle Ages? It’s been a mystery, until now. From the 5th to 10th...

A recently decoded cipher in a sketch for a pendant may represent Tudor Queen Catherine of Aragon’s defiance against her husband Henry...

Recently, an art historian has challenged the identity of a miniature by Hans Holbein. Does it represent the comely Katherine Howard or...

Over four centuries after the passage of the 1563 Witchcraft Act, Scotland has finally issued a formal apology to Scots accused of—and...

A British historian has proposed a new theory about the origins of the Shroud of Turin that will challenge everything you think you know...

New evidence shows that during the Middle Ages, the college masters at Cambridge accepted payment for rent in a rare, red spice. By Dinah...

Using ecological modeling, researchers now believe that far more books have been destroyed over the centuries than originally thought…...

Of the four surviving children from the union between Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, none shone fairer for beauty and charm than the...

Recently, researchers reviewed a rare prayer roll from before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England (1536-1541). What they found...

As a new King to a small island nation, in 1485 Henry Tudor had to make alliances, and fast. So he turned to marriage to secure the...

A team of archaeologists excavating the ruins of a medieval church built near Aylesbury, England, recently found something truly...

Between courting wives, splitting from the Roman Catholic Church, and divesting monasteries, Henry VIII conceived of and built the first...

Academics recently translated a few fragments from a long-lost manuscript about King Arthur’s wizard and mentor Merlin. What they found...

Is this ancient cave the original residence of an Anglo-Saxon king-turned-priest? And can it really be the oldest surviving home in...

Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Francis Drake brought the Catholic kingdoms to their knees through the perfect symbiosis of political...

Britain’s famous chalk giant may have been created not thousands of years ago but during the Middle Ages.

A rusty piece of metal found when cleaning out a garage turned out to be rare (and expensive) 15th-century Scottish sword.