Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

A new study sheds new light on one of the least understood segments of medieval Inner Asian infrastructure: the Gobi Wall.

A skeleton found in London records a brutal killing about 1200 years ago, thought to be a rare example of a judicial ...

A 600-year-old brass seal found in a farmer’s field features an image of St. Catherine of Alexandria. The depiction is chock ...

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Known as the Bromeswell bucket, the artifact found at England’s Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon site probably held the cremated ...

Upon completing their study, the researchers were able to reconstruct the life, death, and burial ceremony of the child, who ...

Scans and radiographs revealed not just the break but its consequences: dense new bone formations, signs of infection, and ...

A bucket manufactured in the sixth century in what is today Turkey found its way to the east coast of England and was buried there. Researchers now know why ...

HBO series Game of Thrones may have showed exactly how gangs operated as historians discovered groups with similar structures ...

Four years ago, archaeologists from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Conservation (BLfD) discovered a child’s tomb at ...

Hidden medieval graffiti in the Last Supper room reveals traces of centuries-old pilgrimages through newly uncovered ...