Archaeology in Europe News

Archaeological remains of individual MC337 excavated from the site of Hipogeu de Monte Canelas I, Portugal, and analysed by the archaeolo...

Malaria was already widespread on Sardinia by the Roman period, long before the Middle Ages, as indicated by research at the Institute of E...

A brawl between gladiators that ended in tragedy, narrated by Tacitus, and a mysterious character that probably died in it is a 2,000-yea...

Some medieval medical books had unusual advice to help improve men’s fertility.  Credit: University of Exeter Men could be held respo...

A team of archaeologists coming to the close of a 10-month project at Plovdiv’s Episcopal Basilica site have found a stone baptismal ves...

16th century copy of Hesiod examined with different imaging techniques by Northwestern researchers  [Credit: Emeline Pouyet] After b...

An incredibly rare wooden container from the Bronze Age has been discovered on the Lötschberg mountain in Switzerland, still with detecta...

Hold on to your Viking helmet; you’re about to dig, layer by layer, into one of the most extraordinary Viking hoards ever found on the B...

Archaeologists have completed the first stage of a major five-year study of the archaeology of the Tintagel headland in Cornwall, in th...

The 1,100-year-old coin found at an archaeological dig at Burghead Fort. Picture: PA A 1,100-year-old coin is amongst a series of disc...

What was life in the fens like in the period known as the dark ages? Archaeologist Susan Oosthuizen revisits the history of an iconic wetlan...

Spanish archaeologists excavating a Visigoth necropolis in Sena, in the northeastern province of Huesca, have uncovered what they say is a b...

rchaeologists prepare to lift the lid of Roman sarcophagus found in Southwark, London  [Credit: Lauren Hurley/PA Wire] This is an exc...

Sofia will have a second archaeological park, where visitors can see a prehistoric settlement from the first European civilization. In t...

A sketch of the designs found on a block of stone Neolithic markings carved into a stone in Orkney that were missed for years by arc...

BLADE TRADE  Copper for Ötzi the Iceman’s ax, or possibly even the finished blade, came from what’s now central Italy, an unexpectedly lo...

The trap was found by chance close to the Fawley oil refinery by archaeology students more than 10 years ago. A timber fishing trap ex...

Dogs most probably evolved from wolves at a single location about 20,000 to 40,000 years ago, a study suggests. Previously, it had bee...

More ‘Vindolanda writing tablets’ full of visible cursive Latin text have been unearthed at Vindolanda Roman Fort, on Hadrian’s Wall Ar...

Archaeologists have found that a 20-foot high mound in Slough, thought to be a Norman castle motte and for centuries the centrepiece of...