Spotted off the coast of Denmark, the "Svaelget 2" is a cog, a kind of large trading vessel used in the Middle Ages. Experts ...

The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don't know why ...

The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast. Archaeologists recently found the wreck of an ...

Last summer, Linda Åsheim found a ring so beautiful it looks like it could have been made yesterday. But Åsheim is an ...

In 1379, a group of pigs in the village of Saint-Marcel-lès-Jussey in eastern France killed a swineherd’s child. In 1386, a ...

The Menga dolmen in Antequera, Spain, is a Neolithic monument and part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. The monument, built ...

The best location for a monastery was one that was close to water and wood. Many monastic chroniclers mention this.

The shipwreck is exceptionally preserved and provides the first archaeological confirmation of features seen in illustrations ...

Find marks first systematically identified burial site associated with plague burials in Europe, scientists say ...

“This finding aligns with both modern soil science and the medieval ‘miasma theory,’ which held that diseases spread through ...

Researchers traced the roots of population movements to England during the early medieval period, from the end of Roman rule ...