During recent excavations at the ruins of the medieval royal manor, researchers discovered hundreds of clinker nails, indicating that an Oslo Viking boat grave lies hidden beneath the historic estate.

A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU ...

Researchers discovered an early copy of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica in Rome which preserves the earliest known poem in ...

Known variously as perpetual stew, forever soup, hunter’s pot or master stock, this is a legendary dish. You take a pot, boil ...

Burials that date to just after the fall of the Roman Empire are revealing the secrets of people who lived on the Roman ...

In a groundbreaking excavation, archaeologists discovered the remains of King Richard III beneath a Leicester parking lot, ...

Millions of years before Neolithic people thought of using metals to stab or crush their enemies, scorpions did the same ...

The history always lies silently below the surface, and the Sutton Lower School is no exception. As only several months ...

Researchers discovered a rare 15th-century letter from French Spider King Louis XI tucked away unnoticed in a Canadian university library collection for years.

In a classic example of lucky metal detectorists triggering an archaeological investigation, a group of metal detecting ...

The historic café beneath one of London’s most visited landmarks has this week introduced a seasonal afternoon tea menu, ...

The appeal isn’t about replacing Croatian hotspot entirely, but about finding versions of its core experience—medieval ...