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
By observing the night sky, medieval monks unwittingly contributed to volcanology, by recording some of history’s largest volcanic eruptions
Ancient DNA Reveals Asian Ancestry Introduced to East Africa in Early Modern Times; the study has been published in Nature
Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral was historical first in using iron reinforcements in the 12th century; the study is published in PLoS ONE
Runes were just as advanced as Roman alphabet writing: Johan Bollaert has investigated written language used in public inscriptions in Norway from the 1100s to the 1500s
