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
Health consequences of child labor in 19th century England: skeletal remains provide insights into the harm of poverty and forced labor in children
In a new study, published in the Journal Antiquity, the “Stonehenge calendar” is shown to be a modern construct
The study shows for the first time that Vikings brought animals, specifically horses and dogs, to Britain in the 9th century
2,000 years of genetic history in Scandinavia elucidates Viking age to modern day; a new study reported in the journal Cell
Archaeogenetic study reveals large-scale continental migration into the East of England during the early Medieval Period
Medieval mass burial shows centuries-earlier origin of Ashkenazi genetic bottleneck; a new study published on Current Biology
The Augustinian friars of medieval Cambridge appear to have been riddled with parasites, according to a new research
British Museum announces major exhibition on hieroglyphs, 200 years after the language was deciphered