Dating to the fifth and sixth centuries C.E., the burials held a trove of grave goods—but the team was particularly impressed ...

Curious about the origins of the iconic green-skinned witch? Discover the fascinating history behind this spooky symbol.

Using ancient DNA, researchers identified migration patterns in Europe during the first millennium AD, linking genetic ...

Ancient, repurposed parchments reveal hidden and forgotten traces of Iceland’s history. Iceland has a long and rich literary ...

The world is a big place, and the scope of history is even bigger. It's pretty difficult to know every single event in ...

Napoleonic laws that gave the Jewish people civil rights sparked a major period of rejuvenation for Jewish households in ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost ...

Once a medieval hub linked to Paris’s early Jewish community and its fabled cemeteries, Tombe Issoire Street is now a ...

Coventry is home to some of the most interesting and unique street names in the UK - and some have fascinating origins dating ...

Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland. Dating back to the medieval period, the ecclesiastical register ...

But scratch the surface of this region in medieval times and you’ll find a rich history – literally. Between the eighth and 16th centuries, West Africa experienced a dynamic period of cultural, ...

When archaeologists in Alkmaar began investigating an old building slated for renovation, they expected to find remnants of history ... life in the region’s medieval period, offering glimpses ...