Plague doctors, the physicians who wore iconic bird-like masks ... In the 13th century, terms like “robehod” “rabunhod” were slang for thieves. Perhaps 14th- and 15th-century ballads about Robin Hood ...

The Plague Doctor’s eerie beak mask was designed to protect against “evil” smells thought to cause disease. But the truth behind this creepy costume will shock you!

The sooner they arrive, the sooner these plague doctors can cure the entire city. You can recruit a Physician from any city or buy one from a town. The unit will cost you quite a bit of gold ...

With its sumptuous painted miniatures in tempera and ink, gold and silver, the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is the most treasured illuminated manuscript of the collections of Château de ...

Two metal detectorists have unearthed a hoard of 15th Century coins in the Scottish Borders. Keith Young and Lisa Stephenson discovered 30 gold and silver coins in close proximity in the ...

Archaeologists then excavated the site, finding five more coins. The 15th century artefacts are a mixture of Scots and English coins, with English silver groats minted by King Henry V, King Edward ...

As such, one could also understand some poor soldier’s decision to dump his 3.2-foot-long, two-handed sword known as a “Zweihänder” in a weapons deposit around the 14 th or 15 th century ...

Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the ...