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

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

Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie) was an influential poet and courtier who documented the events of his life in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in Japan. It is in one of his diaries, Meigetsuki, that he ...

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

The noble steeds of medieval warfare might not have been so mighty after all ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

Working on human pus in a medieval castle, Miescher discovered a substance that would eventually unlock our understanding of ...

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