After baffling scholars for over a century, Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of Wade, revealing it to be a chivalric romance rather than a monster-filled myth. The twist ...

Learn how a new reading of an 800-year-old medieval sermon has revealed fresh insights into the famous English poem 'Song of ...

Scholars found the most famous mystery in Geoffrey Chaucer's writings, which provides "rare evidence" of a medieval preacher referencing "pop culture" in a sermon. The post Scholars finally solve ...

The Song of Wade was hugely popular throughout the Middle Ages. For several centuries, its central character remained a major romance hero, among other famous knights such as Lancelot and Gawain.

Archaeologists have uncovered 3,500-year-old evidence at the ancient city of Troy that may point to a real war behind Homer's ...

The Spanish flu pandemic is famous for killing more than 50 million people. The other thing it’s famous for is how quickly ...