A person digging for fishing worms near a Swedish summer cottage recently discovered a medieval silver hoard containing up to ...

Demography is a particularly murky corner of early medieval history, but we know that between 500 and 1000 there was a trend ...

It won’t catch any fish, but the discovery of as many as 20,000 silver coins and pieces of jewelry dates back to the early ...

Introduction / Hyun Jin Kim and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet -- Part I. Political organization and interactions of Eurasian empires -- The political organization of steppe empires and their contribution ...

Turns out, the Dark Ages weren’t so dim when it came to wellness. Researchers have unearthed a trove of medical remedies dating back over a thousand years, revealing that early medieval Europeans were ...

A team of restoration workers in Dijon, France, pulled up a section of stone flooring inside the Church of Saint Philibert and found a staircase that wasn’t on any of the plans. It was just one of the ...

Let's go back to the Middle Ages to look at some dishes people still enjoy today. Find out if one of your favorite meals is ...

Machine generated contents note: Volume 1 -- Section A Preliminaries -- ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1. Summary -- 1.2. Geography -- 1.3. Site chronology -- 1.4. Ethnic/political terms -- 1.5. Technical ...

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 ...

A group of metal detectorists recently went on an epic summerlong adventure in the European countryside – and discovered a jackpot of ancient riches. Based in the central Polish city of Kalisz, the ...