A previously unknown medieval castle has emerged from the Swiss landscape after a researcher studying high-resolution terrain maps identified telltale features of an early fortification near ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the submerged ruins of a medieval Silk Road city beneath Lake Issyk-Kul. Located in ...

Archaeologists in Aarhus, Denmark, reported finding graves of 77 Viking in a medieval churchyard – a single site that ...

The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.

Underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University have recovered four exceptionally well-preserved medieval spears from Lake Lednica in western Poland, including one ornately decorated ...

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 ...

What first looked like a scatter of junk on the seabed off southern England has turned out to be one of the most revealing ...

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 ...

Archaeology reveals that a millennium ago, North America was home to thriving urban centres as large and sophisticated as ...

The image of a medieval knight moving slowly and stiffly under the tremendous weight of his costly armor as he readies for battle or a joust is firmly fixed in people’s imagination. But, according to ...

An excavation conducted in the historic center of the town of Třebíč has revealed thirteenth-century carved pottery, the ...

Russian archaeologists say they have pinpointed a long-lost medieval burial ground, turning a patch of ordinary landscape into a rare window on the region’s early urban and religious history. The ...