Archaeology in Europe News

'Nativity of Christ', medieval illustration from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century) Christmas became one of...

A TREASURE TROVE of megalithic art imagery from a recently uncovered passage tomb is being released to mark the winter solstice. The Dowth H...

With its south-westerly facing entrance,perhaps Maeshowe’s best known attribute is its  orientation towards the setting sun around midwinter...

A shipwreck at the bottom of Norway's largest lake, Mjøsa AARØNÆS, LARS, VIA DEFENCE FACEBOOK POST. During a government research mission...

Sir Tony Robinson, pictured in 2005, is recording at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk (Image: Newsquest) Long-running archaeological TV show Time Team ...

STENLØSE, DENMARK—Live Science reports that human and animal bones, as well as an unpolished flint ax head, were recovered from what was onc...

Archaeologists at the University of Leicester have just re-examined five 4,000-year-old tools like flint cups and Neolithic axes that have p...

The University of Oxford online course: Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers is currently enroling for Trinity Term when the course will b...

A reconstruction of the burial site near Harpole in Northamptonshire.  Photograph: MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) Find dating from abou...

Collection of pendants from the Harpole Treasure. Photo by Andy Chopping; © MOLA. An exquisite gold necklace from the seventh century C.E. h...

Aerial view of the Viking ring fortress of Aggersborg. The similarity in design with Trelleborg near Slagelse, is clearly evident. Image cre...

One hundred and forty years ago Victorian antiquarians excavated a rare Viking boat grave in the Inner Hebrides. What they uncovered on the ...

How did a group of rowdy itinerant Scandinavians come to dominate swathes of Europe for more than two centuries? Alex Burghart tackles the b...

Dated possibly from the fourth to seventh centuries these inscribed stones were located at various sites near ecclesiastical sites or souter...

A look at the events and history of Iceland between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Iceland’s history begins with its exploration and set...

Sometimes there is a story that’s just so simple and explanatory that it just must be true … even when it isn’t. Such is the so-called ‘Stir...

A chance discovery is shedding new light on early Norse history, after two old school-friends, armed only with a metal detector stumbled acr...

A ‘Danish’ Axe discovered in the Thames River. it dates from the 11th century. Photo by Medievalists.net Few weapons were so feared or as ev...

In the ninth century A.D., this treasure might have bought half a cow.  (Image credit: Brigit Maixner) Using a metal detector in a field, a ...

This sword has a preserved pommel (a knob at the end of the handle) with a "button" on top. (Image credit: The Archaeologists/Nati...