Archaeologists Discover a Well-Preserved Sword From Early Medieval-Era in a Cemetery Engraved With Mysterious Runes ...

When a roughly 1,500-year-old sword is described as still being in the “top echelons of swords,” you know that’s a pretty ...

Dating to the fifth and sixth centuries C.E., the burials held a trove of grave goods—but the team was particularly impressed ...

In Norway, boys discovered rare 600-year-old silver coins under a church, which they kept for decades. The coins, dating from ...

Archaeologists Unearth 188 Medieval Statues in Berlin, Astonished to Find Remains of 'Holy People' Within Recently, ...

(Courtesy Roos van Oosten) When van Oosten first arrived at Leiden University in 1998 to embark on an undergraduate degree in archaeology, she carried a mental image of medieval urban life that is ...

At the Skumsnes farm, located on Norway’s west coast, metal detector enthusiasts discovered a coin and a brooch with textile remnants in this area last year. Now, archaeologists from the University of ...

Archaeologists have found 188 medieval reliquaries during excavations ... Owen Jarus is a regular contributor to Live Science who writes about archaeology and humans' past. He has also written ...

But it is only now being reported in the scientific literature for the first time, with the find detailed in a study published in the European Journal of Archaeology. The medieval cemetery where ...

The project originates with the doctoral research of Dr Jenny Crangle, A Study of Post-Depositional Funerary Practices in Medieval England, conducted in the Department of Archaeology. This study, ...

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