When we think of food in medieval times, we tend to imagine something out of 'The Lord of the Rings' movies. Bearded men ...

The Middle Ages, with its crippling poverty and lack of law and order, was the perfect time for unscrupulous men to turn to a life of crime and roam around the countryside causing untold trouble. But ...

The public furore over the state of Britain’s rivers, lakes and seas continues to grow. The country’s waterways are awash with pollution from sewage, agriculture and motorways, threatening ...

A new European Wetland Map shows Europe’s peatlands, floodplains and coastal wetlands more comprehensively than ever before in one map. Compiled from about 200 data sources, this map informs policy ...

2nd February 2025 Greifswald/Aarhus/Helsinki - On time for World Wetlands Day, the European Wetland Map (‘EWM’) significantly enhances knowledge of wetlands across Europe by locating ...

Roaming the ruins allows visitors to reconnect with Europe's rich and complex history. One such place is the abandoned medieval town-fortress of Cherven in Bulgaria. Located about 30 kilometres ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it." While it is well known that Islamic textiles were present in late medieval European churches, surviving fragments are ...

Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences From RTÉ Brainstorm, how we unearthed a medieval town in Co Kilkenny In the 12th century, the competition for ...

2011) reanalysis. Figure 2. Self-Organizing Maps master representing the dominant summer atmospheric teleconnections in the North Atlantic European sector during 1902–2008, trained with ERA-20C JA SLP ...

Here, we present 54,045 annually precise dendrochronological felling dates from historical construction timber from across most of Europe ... maps for consecutive 50-year periods between 1250 and 1699 ...

Hereford Cathedral is home to the oldest surviving Medieval map of the world - the Mappa Mundi. The majority of the medieval maps of the world that survive today were not designed for travel.