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 ...

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

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

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 ...

A rare 14th-century horse mount has been found during an excavation in a Ryedale village. Ethos Heritage, a community-led archaeological company, led the excavation held over the Easter weekend in ...

The boy was found buried in fine linen and silk that could have only been obtained from the Byzantine Empire, indicating his family’s high status, experts said.

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual.

Construction on the Varberg Tunnel in Sweden—part of a modern railway project—has resulted in an unexpected bounty of ...