In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a ...

The ring, made in part from deep-blue stone, was likely owned by a high-status woman during the Middle Ages.

According to a Daily News Hungary report, more than 100 medieval graves and traces of a medieval settlement were discovered during an investigation conducted ahead of a road construction project in ...

Archaeologists in Germany recently revealed a secret tunnel from the Middle Ages — a tunnel hidden within a much older burial site. The findings were revealed in a Jan. 29 press release by the State ...

Likely related to clashes between the kingdoms of Mercia and East Anglia, the site included the remains of a 6-foot-5 man who had undergone brain surgery ...

Medieval Christians in Denmark showed off their wealth in death by buying prestigious graves: the closer to the church, the ...

And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...

The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...

The medieval tunnel was dug into loess and cut directly through a trapezoidal ditch associated with the Baalberge culture (4th millennium BC), a landscape already reused for burials in later ...

Thousands of similar tunnel systems have been discovered across Europe and despite this, their purpose has been subject to decades of theory and debate.

Medieval tunnel discovered in Germany were likely used for secret cult rituals - Medieval shaft was found during excavation of a Stone Age burial ...

Anhalt, Ulf Petzschmann During routine archaeological surveys conducted ahead of wind-turbine construction in central Germany, researchers uncovered an unexpected structure: a narrow medieval tunnel ...