Medieval peasants mainly ate stews of meat and vegetables, along with dairy products such as cheese, according to a study of old cooking pots. Researchers analysed food residues from the remains of ...

Life in the early Middle Ages, we’re usually told, was nasty, brutish, unpleasant and short. Picture a medieval scene — Monty Python’s knights clip-clopping by with their coconut shells, say, or the ...

Scientists from the University of Bristol have uncovered, for the first time, definitive evidence that determines what types of food medieval peasants ate and how they managed their animals. Using ...

If you've ever been to the restaurant Medieval Times or eaten at a Renaissance Faire, then you've been horribly misled about medieval diets. The real story of medieval foods and cooking is actually ...

Archaeologists find an intact medieval sandal in bearded vulture nests in Spain, preserved for seven centuries on a cliff.

Researchers investigated the diet of people buried in the Ii Hamina, Northern Finland, cemetery from the 15th to the 17th centuries by analysing isotopes in the bones of the deceased. Isotopes ...

BRISTOL, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Bristol, analysis of food remains recovered from the medieval Jewish quarter in historic Oxford suggests that the community ...

The abandoned nests of the bearded vulture in Spain contain a treasure trove of ancient artefacts according to a new study.

Archaeologists found 317 medieval and post-medieval skeletons at the site of a department store that is being remodeled into a university campus. This was hardly surprising, since even more ...