In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...

Found by a metal detectorist in England, the item features a sapphire surrounded by two emeralds and two stones that are ...

Manuscripts drawn from the collections of the university library and Cambridge’s historic colleges will go on display.

The village is detailed in the Domesday Book of 1086 and the ... my best artefact finds": The Medieval gold posy ring is thought to date from the 13th to 14th Century Credit: PA images Mark's ...

“Several other rings of this form have been discovered buried alongside their medieval bishop owners when their coffins were later reopened,” Smith explained to All That’s Interesting. “[T]hese ...

A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories ...

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

A 15th Century manuscript containing the unusual treatment features in a new exhibition detailing the bizarre cures that were used for all manner of ills in the medieval period. The 'cure' for ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...