Medieval walrus ivory points to early interactions between Vikings and Indigenous North Americans in the Arctic Ocean
An archaeogenetic study, published in Science Advances, sheds new light on the isolated medieval community Las Gobas in northern Spain
A new study, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, compared rates of violence in Viking Age Norway and Denmark societies
How shifts in political power and migration influenced the development of rural communities forming around early medieval elites in post-Roman Europe
A new interpretation of the runic inscription on the Forsa Ring, provides fresh insights into the Viking Age monetary system
The body of a woman is discovered among the remains of 25 warrior monks of the Order of Calatrava in Guadalajara
German episcopal cities of Speyer, Worms, and Mainz to digitize their medieval manuscripts at the Mainz University Library
Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae strains that caused leprosy in people
Archaeologists from Newcastle University have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Crowland, Lincolnshire.
Chickens were widely raised across southern Central Asia from 400 BCE through medieval periods and likely dispersed along the ancient Silk Road