The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

An archaeological find of Iron Age artifacts including horse harnesses, chariots and tires sheds new light on English life 2,000 years ago.

A brooch pin dating back to the eighth century has been discovered by archaeologists carrying out excavation work along the ...