A medieval shipwreck known as the “Mortar Wreck” was discovered off England’s southern coast. Scientists were able to test the timbers of the ship and determine that it dates back to the ...

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, ...

LONDON - A saddlemaker ambushed outside a brewhouse. A man stabbed to death after he stumbled over a heap of dung while trying to flee a fight. And a priest killed by three knife-wielding assailants, ...

OXFORD, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that a stone road dating to the medieval period was found in southern England during work to alleviate flooding problems. The road was made from rounded river ...

Now, these stories are all part of an interactive Medieval Murder ... The York map documents 130 homicide cases from the years 1345-1385. England’s second most populated and second-richest ...

who have mapped medieval England’s known murder cases. “It wasn’t surprising, it was what I expected,” Professor Manuel Eisner, lead murder map investigator and director of the University ...

The medieval ship is named the “Mortar Wreck ... a peninsula located in the county of Dorset in southern England. The shipwreck is the oldest known wreck in English waters.

A project mapping medieval England’s known murder cases found that ... First launched in 2018, Cambridge’s Medieval Murder Maps plots crime scenes based on translated investigations from ...

A map pinpointing hundreds of homicides in 14th-century England could help teach medieval history. By Isabella Kwai A spice merchant stabbed by a fruit seller over a longstanding feud. A street ...