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

Various dynasties worked on the 2,485-mile-long (4,000-km) MWS, such as the Jin dynasty (1115 to 1234 CE), whose empire ...

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

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

Learn how researchers combined modern tech, text, and bones to uncover details about a disabled man’s life in medieval Sweden ...

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

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

A strange dagger with testicle-shaped orbs unearthed at a medieval Swedish fortress likely offered additional force for its ...

On Tuesday, June 3, the Algarve Archaeological Association (AAA) will be presenting two lectures, in English, by Maritime ...

Archaeologists find traces of developed settlement with residential buildings and artifacts from the 14th-15th centuries.

Archaeologists working in Varberg, Sweden, have uncovered the remains of several shipwrecks, some dating from the Middle Ages ...