Archaeology in Europe News

Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic Archaeology has a repres...

The 1,400-year-old iron folding chair was a symbol of power and status in medieval times. (Image credit: BLfD/Zenger) Coins, weaponry, jewel...

Photo: Fjörður – Seyðisfjörður fornleifar – Facebook Archaeologists in Seyðisfjörður have excavated jewelry that dates from 940 – 1100, just...

SEYðISFJÖRðUR, ICELAND—Traces of a farmstead dated to the earliest settlement of Iceland have been uncovered in the East Fjords of the islan...

The ancient Celts are commonly viewed as primitive barbarians, at least in comparison to the Greeks and the Romans. One of the reasons for t...

Reconstructed Viking-Age building next to the site of L'Anse aux Meadows. (Image: Glenn Nagel Photography) Vikings were active at a Newf...

TRONDHEIM, NORWAY—According to a statement released by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), researchers led by James B...

The worst year to be alive? Eyjafjallajokull, the Icelandic volcano that threw transatlantic travel into a tailspin several years ago after ...

Image shows a toiletry kit and a tubular rimmed glass bowl excavated from Wendover, Buckinghamshire   -   Copyright  AP Photo Archaeologists...

This old Spanish town re-emerged after a drought dried out the reservoir it was submerged in As the climate crisis intensifies droughts from...

Archeologists in France have uncovered an "extremely rare" yet fragile shipwreck in France believed to be 1,300 years old. The Fre...

The engraved semi-precious gem is known as an intaglio and shows a figure with a raised whip on small chariot with four horses A Roman jewel...

Image Credit : Paul Parker – Stockholm University Archaeologists excavating at Birka on the island of Björkö, Sweden, have discovered a Viki...

Fragments of walrus tusks unearthed in 2007 were traced back to Greenland, indicating that trading routes in the Middle Ages were more advan...

The small silver coin was found near the Hungarian village of Várdomb. It dates to between 1046 and 1066 and is inscribed with the name of t...

A beautiful morning at Sandwich Bay, March 2022 © Alex Wilson As an adventurous person I love finding new and exciting opportunities to get ...

An artistic reconstruction of ‘Southern European’ Vikings emphasising the foreign gene flow into Viking Age Scandinavia. image: Jim Lyngvild...

Researchers have shown that not all Vikings were from Scandinavia.  (CREDIT: Creative Commons) Invaders, pirates, warriors – the history boo...

Vikings are often depicted as warmongering seafarers from Scandinavia, men who set out on expeditions to plunder distant lands. The lives of...

Approximately 45,000 artifacts and some 50,000 skeletal remains and animal bones were uncovered in the massive, decades-long excavation at B...