Archaeologists in southwestern Crimea have identified a previously unknown medieval fortress near the village of Rodnoye, a discovery that could add an important new piece to the region’s famously ...

Spotted off the coast of Denmark, the "Svaelget 2" is a cog, a kind of large trading vessel used in the Middle Ages. Experts ...

In 1379, a group of pigs in the village of Saint-Marcel-lès-Jussey in eastern France killed a swineherd’s child. In 1386, a ...

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

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

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

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

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

The shipwreck is exceptionally preserved and provides the first archaeological confirmation of features seen in illustrations ...

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

The discovery was made underneath a famous national park. Archaeologists found medieval tunnels with a sophisticated hydraulic system beneath a famous national park. The system powered paddle wheels ...

I noticed earlier this week that there was a studio I hadn't heard of among the Summer Game Fest partners, Raw Power Games, which said it was building a "vast medieval sandbox." Sure enough, we got a ...