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

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 ...

It’s a common scene in many films set in medieval Europe: a wooden cart wheeling its way through a jeering crowd of townsfolk ...

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

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

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

Archaeologists have unearthed the largest-ever medieval “super ship” dating back to the 1400s, a discovery that prompts a ...

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

The combination of filigree and granulation techniques arrived in Norway during the early Middle Ages from the Byzantine Empire, partly via Carolingian goldsmithing traditions. The Carolingian period, ...

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