An unrelated pair of people buried in cemeteries in 7th-century Britain probably had grandparents from West Africa ...

What did people in the Middle Ages really find funny? It would seem that the same things have been found to be amusing right across the ages. Many of the riddles that the Medievals told have double ...

Medieval health tips show surprising similarities to modern TikTok wellness trends, including herbal detox drinks, vinegar ...

Is it any wonder then, that in a time when everything had a religious significance, any unexplained phenomenon in the skies ...

A fisherman in Poland reeled in a 700-year-old medieval sword while fishing on the Vistula River. The sword measures 31 ...

Beneath churchyards in London and Lincolnshire lie the chemical echoes of famine, infection and survival preserved in the ...

"Medieval people needed to carry things around, just like us," they wrote, and the leather bags "give us insight into how people organized their everyday lives — and what they valued." ...

Archaeologists have returned to the site of a 1,000-year-old monastery where they are piecing together evidence of a ...

Up to 60,000 people are expected to attend a three-day medieval reenactment event that starts on Friday. The Battle of ...

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About a foot under the tombstone, crews discovered the remains of a coffin holding a full skeleton. Aleksandra Pudlo from the Archaeological Museum in Gdansk told the city that the skeleton was once a ...