Look at any map of Europe from the Middle Ages or the early modern era, before the Industrial Revolution, and you will be overwhelmed by its dizzying incoherence—all of those empires ...

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male ...

Europe’s appetite for cheaper electricity ... and raze villages that have survived since medieval times. Across the continent’s mining belt, from Germany to Poland and the Czech Republic ...

A time of innovation, philosophy, and legendary works of art: the realities of the medieval period (500 to 1500 C.E.) in Europe may surprise you. Many know the years before the Renaissance and ...

A map pinpointing hundreds of homicides in 14th ... detailed travel routes through medieval Europe and compiled databases with the names of people who were trafficked and enslaved during the ...

Completed in 1459, the Mappa Mundi is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the ... showcasing Europe, Africa and Asia was ...

Instead, it was a general network of trade routes that stretched between Europe and the Middle ... “We could really change the map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says in the ...