A sunken medieval town dubbed “Yorkshire’s Atlantis” is on the brink of being discovered after existing for more than 650 years underwater. Ravenser Odd was a busy port town built on the ...

Bolton Castle, a 600-year-old medieval site near Leyburn, North Yorkshire, is launching a series of late summer and autumn ...

A certain people in medieval Yorkshire were so afraid of the dead that they chopped, smashed and burned their skeletons to make sure they stayed in their graves. Archaeological research published ...

But new analysis of medieval bones has shown that, in one North Yorkshire village at least, the inhabitants really did quake in fear of a night of the living dead.

A newly published study reveals that villagers in medieval Yorkshire, England, burned and chopped up the skeletons of their dearly departed. The archaeologists who penned the study say all ...

Easily spooked Brits have been warned to avoid eight creepy UK villages notorious for their harrowing histories and amongst them is the deserted, pre-medieval North Yorkshire village of Wharram Percy.

It turns out medieval peasants were just as ... But the upshot is that some villagers in the 11th to 13th centuries who lived near modern-day Wharram Percy in northern Yorkshire were apparently ...

Thousands of lost Yorkshire words dating as far back as medieval times and unearthed by a local historian have been published in a new volume of an ancient dictionary.

Archaeologists have discovered that the mysterious underground "bowling alley" structure just to the east of the ruined abbey is the buried remains of a medieval tannery, where monks and lay ...

A newly published study reveals that villagers in medieval Yorkshire, England, burned and... Robbie Gramer: Medieval England was home to history’s first zombie madness ...

A metal detectorist uncovered a stunning 8th-century gilded cross in Leeds, shedding light on early Christian history and high-status individuals in medieval Yorkshire.