But the coin found by the metal detectorist bears an inscription showing it was minted in Edinburgh. Alice Blackwell, senior ...

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

Elsewhere, a medieval loo and a jet die used to predict the future were among the finds uncovered at Auckland Castle in Bishop Auckland, County Durham. At least three medieval toilets have been found ...

Mysterious, ancient female figurines have been found by the dozens all over Denmark, and as far afield as England and Russia: inch-long bronze depictions of long-haired women, often wearing crested ...

A 1,300-year-old grave unearthed during construction of a housing complex in Northamptonshire has been hailed as the most significant early medieval female burial discovered in Britain. The collection ...

New scientific testing reveals that the marble slab covering Emperor Otto I’s tomb in Magdeburg Cathedral did not come from Greece.

Unlike most Anglo-Saxon gold hoards, which are typically recovered from burial contexts alongside human remains and other grave goods, these objects were found scattered across a slope with no ...

A study has, for the first time, identified minute traces of broomcorn millet consumption directly from human dental calculus ...

Archaeologists discover an 800-year-old silver-tipped stylus in a German monastery, shedding light on medieval writing and ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

Twenty-two pieces of silver bullion, including both raw ingots and flattened Viking arm rings, were discovered in the Galloway Hoard. Arm rings such as these, which are usually found in Ireland and ...