Last month, a sinkhole opened up on a major road in York, England, prompting emergency repairs. But construction came to a halt after crews discovered what appeared to be the remains of an old ...

A ROAD in the heart of York gave way to a sinkhole and exposed a vital part of the city’s past. Archaeologists have found the ...

Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former ...

Violent crime looks quite a bit different today than it did in medieval times, when educated men were most likely to commit murder, usually in affluent areas, and often proceeded with impunity, ...

“Remnants of what is believed to be one of the largest medieval hospitals in the north of England have been found inside the ...

It's easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon ...

Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former lover, a priest, nearly 700 years ago.

When archaeologists were called to investigate a sinkhole that opened up in the city of York, they were surprised to find ...

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers.

He may have betrayed her to the Church—she may have had him killed. Researcher uncovers medieval murder in modern-day maps.

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

The Medieval Murder Maps project collects cases of homicide and other sudden or suspicious deaths in 14th century London, Oxford and York, including the location of the killing of John Forde, a ...