In the Middle Ages, boiling and burning alive were official punishments meant to inspire fear. Victims were lowered into oil, ...

The body’s condition can tell scientists much about medieval law and order, or lack thereof. Archaeologists in England have uncovered gruesome evidence of a Medieval-era public punishment which ...

Life in a medieval prison was nothing short of a nightmare. Far from the structured and regulated systems we know today, medieval incarceration was an unpredictable, dangerous ordeal that tested the ...