Tuesday, April 09, 2024

Trove Of Coins Dating Back To The 1100s Found On Visingsö, Sweden

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A large trove of coins dating back to the formation of Sweden in the 1100s has been discovered at Brahe Church on Visingsö, the island with ...

Mystery Of The Haraldskærkvinnan (Haraldskærwoman) – Bog Body Of A Viking Queen?

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Scientists have long tried to unravel the mystery of the bog body today known as Haraldskærkvinnan (Haraldskærwoman). With the help of histo...

Vikings May Have Used Body Modification as a ‘Sign of Identification’

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Examples of artificially altered bones belonging to island-dwelling Vikings may be examples of purposeful body modifications, according to a...

Unravelling the mystery of England's Dark Age coins

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According to archaeologists, England relied on silver imported from France to make its own coins around 1,300 years ago. Even older English ...
Sunday, April 07, 2024

Roman Villa Full Of Miniature Votive Axes, Curse Tablets And Strange Artifacts Discovered In Oxfordshire

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A large Roman villa was uncovered in Oxfordshire. Credit: Red River Archaeology Group The complex was adorned with intricate painted plaster...

Smallhythe: Riverside Romans and a royal shipyard in Kent

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Today, Smallhythe Place in Kent is best known as a bohemian rural retreat once owned by the Victorian actress Ellen Terry and her daughter E...

How hard working 'Lady of the Little Orme' was years ahead of her time

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This 5,500-year-old skeleton named Blodwen on display at Amgueddfa Llandudno Museum  (Image: Amgueddfa Llandudno Museum) The roles of men an...

Byzantium and the early Rus’, with Monica White

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A conversation with Monica White about the earliest contacts between Constantinople and the first Rus’-Varangian raiders, traders, and merce...
Tuesday, April 02, 2024

'Extraordinary' Viking combs reveal Ipswich's medieval importance

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Most of the combs were made from red deer antler, although some were made from bone An unearthed collection of Viking combs is "extraor...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Why Berserkers Were Some Of History’s Most Feared Warriors

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Viking berserkers existed as mercenaries for hundreds of years during the Scandinavian Middle Ages, traveling in bands to fight wherever the...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial

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Edith Pretty, one of England’s first female magistrates, owned a huge estate in south-east Suffolk known as Sutton Hoo. Pretty had been awar...

Intriguing Skull Modifications Discovered in Viking Women

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A recent study delves into the discovery of three women from Viking-Age Gotland who underwent skull elongation. This investigation sheds lig...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology

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Early Dark Age Britain is notorious for being poorly recorded. Most of our information about the era comes from much later records, written ...
Monday, March 04, 2024

Magnet fisherman pulls a 1,200-year-old Viking sword out of a river

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Trevor Penny found a Viking sword while magnet fishing in Oxfordshire (Picture: Trevor Penny/Triangle News) A magnet fisherman was shocked t...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World

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Science loves the Vikings. NASA’s 1970s mission to Mars paid homage to the Vikings, and Bluetooth wireless technology takes its name from th...

Seeing the wood for the trees: How archaeologists use hazelnuts to reconstruct ancient woodlands

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If we could stand in a landscape that our Mesolithic ancestors called home, what would we see around us? Scientists have devised a method of...

Archaeologists decode the secrets held within Scotland's oldest manuscript

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In a major archaeological discovery, the ancient monastery associated with the creation of the Book of Deer, Scotland's oldest surviving...

Researchers create method to detect cases of anemia in archaeological remains

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Original micro-CT resolution(a) versus adjusted resolution for comparison to CT images(b) for the same individual. Sagittal micro-CT (a) and...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Excavations at the medieval Beaumont Abbey in France have revealed nearly 800 years of history before the French Revolution shut it down.

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Excavation of the servants' cemetery at Beaumont Abbey. (Image credit: Copyright Jean Demerliac, Inrap) The excavation of a medieval Fre...

Kyivan Rus: The First East Slavic State

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Long before Russia or Ukraine existed, there was Kyivan Rus. Centuries before Russia or Ukraine raised arms against each other, Scandinavian...