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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists found missing pieces of a sixth century vessel from the famed Sutton Hoo site, as well as the cremated human remains and other objects it once held.