Jewellery from the grave of the Frafjord woman, a high status Viking woman was delivered at museum’s door, at Stavanger
A unique sword casts new light on Viking voyages across the North Sea; only about 20 such swords have been found in Norway
Norse settlers in Greenland exported walrus tusk ivory to Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Kyiv was a very important trading city
Origins of the Black Death identified. Despite the pandemic’s immense demographic and societal impacts, its origins have long been elusive
Archaeologists located a unique Viking Age shipyard site at Birka on Björkö in Lake Mälaren: “A site like this has never been found before”
A new study combining archaeological, historical and bioarchaeological data provides new insights into the early Islamic period in modern-day Syria
This article describes the Knihověda.cz portal, which represents an essential infrastructure for researching Czech book history until 1800.
Leicester archaeologists expand excavations at Leicester Cathedral site The team behind the discovery of Richard III have resumed major archaeological excavations at Leicester…
Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly veggie but peasants treated them to huge barbecues, new study on the journal Anglo-Saxon England argues
Ancient skeletons reveal the history of worm parasites in Britain; a new study published on PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases