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

Divers have unearthed the largest cog shipwreck ever discovered in a strait off Denmark, signalling a period of economic development in medieval Europe.

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 ...

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

Historically, Theodoro (also known as Gothia) is often described as one of the final “rump states” of the Eastern Roman world, with its capital at Mangup (Doros/Theodoro) and a mixed population that ...

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

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

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

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

The combination of filigree and granulation techniques arrived in Norway during the early Middle Ages from the Byzantine Empire, partly via Carolingian goldsmithing traditions. The Carolingian period, ...