Is the Melun Diptych, 15th century French painting, depicting an Acheulean handaxe, an ancient stone tool used by hominins?
Shipboard cannon found off Marstrand on the Swedish coast may be the oldest in Europe; the study has been published in The Mariner’s Mirror
The Self Portraits Rooms at the Uffizi Galleries: twelve rooms show six hundred years of art history in the form of self-portraits and portraits
The Danish colonisation of Greenland in the 18th century was in part driven by the desire to re-establish contact with early Norse settlers that vanished from the island in the course of the 15th century
The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge in the 7th century with the ‘Trumpington Cross’ has been reconstructed
The exhibition Sovereign Metals. Festivities, the Hunt and the Firmament in Medieval Islam, is held at the MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale
Medieval music wasn’t necessarily supposed to be something beautiful and complex, it had other practical purposes,” says Manon Louviot, a musicologist
Lost since 1362: Researchers discover the church of the sunken medieval trading place of Rungholt, in the North Frisian Wadden Sea in Germany
Modern-day Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish people have Pictish ancestry; the new study has been published in PLOS Genetics
Research into grape pips found from the excavated Byzantine monastery of Avdat (Oboda), in the Negev Highlands (Israel), hints at the origins of the Gaza wine
