Beneath churchyards in London and Lincolnshire lie the chemical echoes of famine, infection and survival preserved in the teeth of those who lived through some of the most catastrophic periods in ...

Newly displayed 1,300-year-old doodles suggest that medieval monastic life wasn’t all about solemn chants and holy scripture. Now on view at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, the ...

The Lough Kinale Book Shrine was discovered in an Irish lake in 1986. National Museum of Ireland In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks transported an important collection of texts to continental ...

St Sophia’s Cathedral, one of eight UNESCO World Heritage sites in Ukraine, is one of the few surviving buildings from the Kyivan Rus' era and one of the most important Eastern Orthodox shrines in all ...

Archaeologists have discovered an early medieval cemetery in southeastern England. Inside one of its treasure-filled burials—which date to the fifth and sixth centuries C.E.—they have also unearthed a ...

A woman walking in the Czech Republic stumbled upon more than 2,150 early medieval silver coins. Originally stored in a ceramic pot during a time of political turmoil, the coins have sat in place ...