Hi, I’m Emily Expedition, an archaeologist and researcher with a particular interest in the stranger corner of human history.

For people living in the Middle Ages, death was not the end but the beginning of a spiritual journey. Medieval Christians ...

A plague of serious proportions is ravaging the world. But not for the first time. From 1347-51, the Black Death killed anywhere from one-tenth to one-half (or more) of Europe’s population. One ...

The transcript presents ordinary medieval life as a brutal cycle of labor, filth, fear, hunger, and sudden death. Most people rarely left their villages, yet any peasant man over 18 could be pulled ...

June 15 (Reuters) - Ancient DNA from bubonic plague victims buried in cemeteries on the old Silk Road trade route in Central Asia has helped solve an enduring mystery, pinpointing an area in northern ...

In our research in the British Library’s medieval collections, we have identified a previously unnoticed document that provides fresh insights into the survivors of the outbreak of plague known as the ...

The majority of homicides catalogued on the map occurred in public places, including crowded streets and markets Violence Research Centre/University of Cambridge It was the priest in Dunstan Parish ...

Several years ago, I spent a rainy afternoon at the Wellcome Library in London examining a 15th-century birthing girdle. The eagle-eyed curator watched my every move, making sure I didn’t touch the ...