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...

Killer rabbits were not an idea introduced by Monty Python. Rather, they were such a common medieval trope that even minstrels of the...

Who hasn’t imagined stumbling across a bargain item at a yard sale and realizing that what you are looking at is a rare medieval antique?...

Following a series of unsuccessful wage negotiations, the unionized workers at a California Medieval Times Dinner Theater have gone on...

Throughout the Middle Ages, women were instructed through formal books of courtesy to be subservient, humble, virginal, and obedient to...

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...

To improve benefits, safety standards, and even increase pay, performers at the popular Medieval Times Dinner Theater in Lyndhurst, NJ...

Have you ever wondered what it was like to live the life of the medieval nun, writer, and composer Hildegard von Bingen? Psychic medium...

During the Middle Ages, how to induce desire in one's mate was top of mind for many people. The answer? Read on… According to the...

An 11th-century vessel found in Jerusalem may have been used by the Arabs to confuse and scare the Crusaders, centuries before gunpowder...

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...

Archaeologists were recently surprised to find something quite unusual as they dug through the wreckage at Notre Dame. By Ellen...

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

One of the rarest and least understood weather events ever encountered was described as a “marvelous sign” by a 12th-century Benedictine...

A recent study shows that the average size of a medieval war horse was shockingly petit. According to a team of zoologists in the UK who...

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

Using medieval building techniques, this summer, college students constructed a massive wooden roof support for the reconstruction of...

Excalibur, Durandal, Hrunting, Joyeuse: the names of the world’s most famous swords carry a mystique that rings down through the ages. by...