Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the heart of the modern house: what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the kitchen is to the 21stcentury home.

I've often heard that medieval glass windows are thicker at the bottom because glass flows like a fluid.

The complex style of the medieval wooden church carvings and the skills used to make them almost certainly to derive from the ancient Viking tradition.

This was accomplished so that the team could examine and repair the churches' original medieval stone blocks.