rivers awash with bloated corpses, putrefied air alive with deadly microbes, and the nauseating stench of death and decay. Welcome to your average medieval city. Urban life in the Middle Ages was ...

Zutphen, a town in the province of Gelderland and perched along the shores of the IJssel River, is one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands and one of the best preserved medieval gems in ...

Archaeologists discovered part of the medieval river wall in Black Rod's Garden in Westminster in 2015, making this a second finding of the wall. The first, found medieval timber structures ...