A pair of medieval slabs has been recovered from the depths of Studland Bay, off the coast of Dorset in the U.K., after lying underwater for some 800 years. The relics were part of the cargo of a 13th ...

Archaeologists excavating at a medieval cemetery in Denmark have found the burials of 77 people who were early Christians in ...

Excavation by Moesgaard Museum during installation of new waste containers will use carbon dating and DNA tests to explore ...

Hundreds of skeletons from a medieval graveyard have been discovered beneath Cambridge University in England. Archaeologists got a rare chance to excavate one of the largest medieval hospital burial ...

Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered the medieval burial of an extremely tall man who was buried with a long sword — one that was nearly two-thirds of his height — and may have been a nobleman who ...

In 1968, excavators uncovered a nearly 1,000-year-old grave in Finland thought to be occupied by a warrior woman, given the presence of both jewelry and a pristine sword in the grave. A new analysis ...

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LONDON – A large medieval cemetery containing around 1,300 skeletons has been discovered in the central English city of Leicester, archaeologists said Tuesday. The bones were found during a dig before ...

A mysterious female warrior discovered in a Viking grave in Denmark was originally thought to be a Viking. But now, researchers have made a surprising discovery about this fierce warrior who died more ...

What archaeologists discovered during the excavation at Cambridge. Hundreds of skeletons were found at an excavation site at St John’s College, Cambridge, seen here in an undated handout photo. Craig ...