Swedish archaeologists uncovered medieval monastery ruins in Derome, thanks to a history enthusiast's research of old maps ...

Here, they use a special metal frame that allows archaeological ... calls a 'cart with the magnetic probes' to map a long-buried medieval city. (Dirk Bienen-Scholt) So far, the team has mapped ...

It was a map of the world – a “mappa mundi” in Latin – but it was unlike any I had encountered before. Framed in gold and 2.4 metres in diameter, the world pictured here was a combination ...

University of CambridgeThe “London Medieval Murder Map” that was created by the University of Cambridge. Life definitely wasn’t easy in the Middle Ages. It was a period of history ...

“Greenland is so close to the real Greenland, it’s hard to believe anyone in the Middle Ages would have drawn a map like that.” It also seemed unlikely for a medieval scribe to know that ...

The Mappa Mundi, completed by monk Fra Mauro in 1459, is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the world. Video by Anna ...

And the finished map picture frame makes a real impact when filled with a favorite travel snap. Any size or material of picture frame works for this project. Remove the glass so you're just left ...

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual. A rectangle and the word “Klosterkullen,” which translates to ...

Today: a nifty interactive "murder map" of medieval London. In July of 1316, a priest with a hankering for fresh apples sneaked into a walled garden in the Cripplegate area of London to help ...

Medieval Murder Maps is an interactive website that gives insight into how people were killed in medieval London, York and Oxford. We are going to travel back in time now to medieval England ...

As Eisner tells the Guardian’s Nicola Davis, the map reveals a surprising number of commonalities between medieval murders and contemporary homicides: Both tend to begin with altercations “of ...