Archaeologists have revealed a rare medieval cult site, dated to the 7th century, replete with gold and silver offerings, a study reports. Well-excavated cult sites are key to understanding changing ...

Archaeologists working in the Polish town of Wolin, on the Baltic island of the same name, have discovered the remains of ...

Archaeologists have discovered more than $318,000 worth of gold and silver coins believed to have been used by pagans as “devil’s money” at a rare Medieval worship site in the Netherlands. A dig near ...

A study has, for the first time, identified minute traces of broomcorn millet consumption directly from human dental calculus ...

Archaeologists have unearthed human remains thought to date to the 14th or 15th century in a newly discovered cemetery that likely belonged to a demolished medieval abbey in Northern Ireland. When you ...

Unlike most Anglo-Saxon gold hoards, which are typically recovered from burial contexts alongside human remains and other grave goods, these objects were found scattered across a slope with no ...

Archaeologists have made a stunning breakthrough after discovering an 11th Centry medieval toilet that has helped to unravel a 2,000-year-old mystery. Researchers from the University of Exeter and the ...

Archaeologists excavating Beaumont Abbey in Tours, France, have uncovered over 1,000 burials, including plague victims, and remnants of a 9th-century village beneath the abbey. The site, home to choir ...

Workers removing silt in Poland’s Vistula river have pulled out a rare 1,000-Year-Old medieval sword in “near perfect” condition. They found the strange oblong metal object earlier this month amid the ...

The skeletal remains of a medieval anchoress — essentially a religious hermit — buried in an unusual, crouched position at a church site in England died with syphilis and arthritis, archaeologists ...

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Archaeologists in Russia unearthed two strange human skeletons in a medieval cemetery, buried along with battle axes and equestrian equipment. The cemetery, dating to the 11th century, was originally ...