The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...

The medieval tunnel was dug into loess and cut directly through a trapezoidal ditch associated with the Baalberge culture (4th millennium BC), a landscape already reused for burials in later ...

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Anhalt, Ulf Petzschmann During routine archaeological surveys conducted ahead of wind-turbine construction in central Germany ...

A team of archaeologists has recovered exceptionally well-preserved early medieval weapons from the bottom of Lake Lednica, in west-central Poland, a site directly linked to the country’s first rulers ...

The Modern Period. Science and society, 1800-1960 -- The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Period, 1789-1815 -- Western and Central Europe, 1815-1914 -- Northern and Eastern Europe, 1801-1915 -- The ...

The journey of our ancestors out of Africa was of keen interest to archaeologists as they tracked the age-old paths. Understanding the journey helped map the spread of the population and how it ...

The rolled-up piece of lead contains inscriptions that are barely visible to the naked eye. (Image credit: Archeology in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (AIM-V)) The discovery came from a place no one ...