In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a monastery, the more it likely cost. Wealth followed you into the ground. That ...

The German town of Echene vanished from history—but now it’s returned.

An archaeology student from Florida struck gold in the U.K. just 90 minutes into her first-ever excavation, when she discovered a rare ninth-century artifact that may have had a religious or ...

Leicester’s Market Place is known as the historical home of shops, but archaeologists recently discovered an on-site dungeon there, too. During excavation work, the team found the medieval dungeon, ...

GDANSK, POLAND—CNN reports that Polish archaeologists made an unexpected find beneath the floor of a former ice cream parlor. The popular shop in the historic city center of Gdansk has been serving ...

The remains of a 500-year-old dungeon once described as “a most vile prison” have been discovered beneath a market square in Leicester, central U.K. Ahead of a £7.5 million ($10.1 million) project to ...

When the HS2 railway was first announced, a lot of people were understandably thrilled. The railway is supposed to link ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a long-lost medieval village, thanks to pre-construction excavations for an offshore wind farm project. On Dec. 9, Wessex Archaeology announced its ...

A remarkable runic inscription, the Wawa Runestone, has been unearthed in Ontario. This ancient carving is the longest runic ...

In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a monastery, the more it likely cost. Wealth followed you into the ground. That ...