Archaeology in Europe News

Goods from a grave site at Issendorf cemetery in Lower-Saxony, Germany.  Landesmuseum Hannover A new study could close a long-standing debat...

Knowledgable linguist Rob Watts of RobWords explained how the Old Norse language of the Vikings had a profound effect upon the modern Englis...

Archaeologists have recently discovered a shipwreck off the coast of Israel, which is believed to be 1,200 years old. It is believed to be a...

(Landesmuseum Hannover) According to a statement released by the University of Huddersfield, a team of researchers from the Max Planck Insti...

The University of Oxford online course will run from Wednesday, 28 Sep 2022 to Friday 09 Dec 2022  You can find further details here...

IN 2001, ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS ON Aðalstræti unearthed the remains of a tenth-century longhouse with a wall dating back to 871±2, the o...

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...