Most reliquary crosses are found broken, opened, or separated, which strips away key information about how they were made and used. This one is different: it’s a two-part cross permanently sealed with ...

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 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 ...

Maritime archaeologists from Denmark's Viking Ship Museum have unearthed an extraordinary find beneath the waters near Copenhagen - the largest medieval cog ever discovered. The 600-year-old vessel ...

A pair of "extremely rare" structures from the early medieval period and evidence of a Roman settlement have been uncovered in the United Kingdom. The remains were identified during an excavation this ...

Archaeologists found a 300 ton shipwreck that is the largest vessel of its kind ever found in the Baltic region.

(CREDIT: Medieval Archaeology) The team analyzed more than 700 chemical signatures from skeletal remains found in early medieval cemeteries across England. These data were paired with ancient DNA from ...

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Learn how ancient DNA and tooth enamel are rewriting England’s medieval history and showing connections between climate change and migration. For centuries, popular history has framed early medieval ...

An excavation in Oslo's former harbor has yielded the remains of a rare iron gauntlet, likely lost by a medieval knight in the 14th century. Archaeologists with the Norwegian Institute for Cultural ...

SUFFOLK, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, a hoard of coins was discovered in eastern England during an investigation conducted ahead of a construction project by Andrew Pegg of Oxford Cotswold ...