Most reliquary crosses are found broken, opened, or separated, which strips away key information about how they were made and used. This one is different: it’s a two-part cross permanently sealed with ...

Archaeologists have revealed a rare medieval cult site, dated to the 7th century, replete with gold and silver offerings, a study reports. Well-excavated cult sites are key to understanding changing ...

Archaeologists have discovered more than $318,000 worth of gold and silver coins believed to have been used by pagans as “devil’s money” at a rare Medieval worship site in the Netherlands. A dig near ...

Archaeologists say a 13th-century silver seal discovered on farmland holds a carved gemstone dating back to the Roman Empire.

Traces of the fourteenth-century residence of the Lords of Gelterkinden, known as the Weiherhaus, have been identified in ...

Archaeologists have unearthed human remains thought to date to the 14th or 15th century in a newly discovered cemetery that likely belonged to a demolished medieval abbey in Northern Ireland. When you ...

Historically, Theodoro (also known as Gothia) is often described as one of the final “rump states” of the Eastern Roman world, with its capital at Mangup (Doros/Theodoro) and a mixed population that ...

An excavation in Oslo's former harbor has yielded the remains of a rare iron gauntlet, likely lost by a medieval knight in the 14th century. Archaeologists with the Norwegian Institute for Cultural ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

(CNN) — Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate illustration of the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and a ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN—According to a report in The Guardian, archaeologists working at the site of a former fish market along the Barcelona waterfront unearthed the remnants of a medieval ship, which they ...