Who Was the Man in the Well at Sverresborg? It was found in 1938 by the manager of Sverresborg Folk Museum, Sigurd Tiller, while investigating the castle ruins
The Viking Faroe Islands colonizers were a group of male settlers from multiple Scandinavian populations, different from the Iceland colonizers
French women had more power in the Middle Ages than after the revolution, according to Erika Graham-Goering
Drone-based lidar in Central Asia allowed archaeologists to capture details of Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, two trade cities along the Silk Road, high in the mountains of Uzbekistan
In medieval times, Nidaros Cathedral was seen as a remote but important outpost of the Catholic Church – so remote they called it Ultima Thule
A premiere presentation of re-created costumes based on wall paintings from the cathedral of Faras in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw and the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum
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
