Amateur detectorists exploring the historic fields near Gietrzwałd, Poland, have unearthed a remarkably rare medieval flail weapon known as a kiścień - only the fourth such artifact ever recorded in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A team of archaeologists from the Goethe University Frankfurt has returned from a fieldwork campaign in Iraqi Kurdistan without the spectacular museum-quality objects, but with a wealth of evidence ...

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 ...

A group of possibly-medieval artefacts that was discovered in a thrift store in western Canada will form the basis of a unique, real-time learning lab for students at Simon Fraser University (SFU) ...

OXFORD, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, archaeologists have uncovered the medieval kitchens of Oxford University's Oriel College, which was founded in 1326. The excavation coincides with ...

A tiny object barely three centimeters tall has become the closest window we have into the appearance of the Vikings. It is a game piece carved in walrus ivory that, after more than two centuries in ...

SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, a team of researchers from Historic England and the University of Southampton studied a collection of human bones from at least ten ...

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 ...