medieval-history

Three people buried inside Grotta Romanelli in southern Italy lived during the medieval period, new radiocarbon dates show. The finding adds a later phase of human use to one of the Mediterranean’s key Paleolithic sites. Researchers dated skeletal remains from one adult and two children using accelerator mass spectrometry, or AMS. The remains came from […]

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - As populations expanded in Medieval England, key changes occurred in the use of cattle and sheep to produce food and materials, according to a new study. During Medieval England, shifts in population and trade led people to change how they used animals for meat, milk, and farming. North Devon : Cattle […]

A hoard of silver coins has been unearthed near Moscow, revealing new information about money minting in the 15th century.

Archaeologists have found the largest known hoard of Russian silver coins from the first half of the 15th century during rescue excavations in the historic center of Kolomna. The hoard contains more than 2,600 silver coins, known as dengas, and was buried in a small ceramic jug. The vessel had a simple painted surface and […]

Recently discovered on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, the pages include Bible passages, poems, plays and other texts. They were repurposed as book bindings during the 16th and 17th centuries

At least 19 planks from this flat-bottomed, lake-faring vessel were used to create 270 square feet of this ceiling in the city of Constance in 1244. The post Archaeologists In Germany Found A Medieval Cellar Whose Ceiling Was Made From The Nearly Complete Hull Of A 13th-Century Ship appeared first on All That's Interesting .

A team of archaeologists and metal detectorists has begun a new survey of the battlefield where Polish-Lithuanian forces fought the Teutonic Order in 1410. About 40 researchers, detectorists and museum specialists will spend a week searching the fields around Grunwald in Poland’s Warmian-Masurian region. This year’s work focuses on the central part of the battlefield. […]

Archaeologists are excavating the remains of a medieval settlement near Halberstadt in central Germany. The site lies beside the Frevelgraben, east of the city, near Gessnerstraße. The Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt began work at the site in March. The dig forms part of plans to expand Halberstadt’s Ost industrial area. Earlier geophysical surveys […]

Archaeologists may have discovered the first-ever victim of a trebuchet attack more than 700 years ago. The victim appears to be a medieval man who was unearthed beneath the royal chapel at Stirling Castle. Dr Jo Buckberry, an archaeologist at the University of Bradford, made the discovery while re-examining a set of roughly 700-year-old remains known as Skeleton 150, which were originally found …

The man was killed by a massive catapult at Stirling Castle, likely during King Edward I's historic siege of 1304, part of the Wars of Scottish Independence. The post This Medieval Skeleton Was Discovered With 167 Fractures At A Scottish Castle. Now, Researchers Believe He Was The First Victim Of Edward I’s ‘Warwolf’ Trebuchet appeared first on All That's Interesting .

A medieval ship was reused as the ceiling of a basement built in 1244 in Constance, southern Germany. The finding came during a building study on Konradigasse by the State Office for Monument Preservation in Stuttgart. Researchers first thought the ceiling used old timber planks. A closer study showed something far more unusual. At least […]

A medieval monastery long thought to have vanished has been located beneath a sports field in Roskilde, Denmark. Ground-penetrating radar has revealed well-preserved remains of Sankt Clara monastery, built in the 13th century. The ruins lie about one meter below the current ground surface. Researchers found the remains during a survey linked to plans for […]

Though researchers have determined that the stone's inscription was written in Old Norse, they haven't been able to decipher more than its opening words thus far, prompting them to call in a runestone expert in order to solve this baffling mystery. The post A Medieval Runestone With A Mysterious Inscription Was Just Found At The Ruins Of A Chapel On The Faroe Islands appeared first on All That's …

In an unexpected discovery, researchers found that three medieval Swedish cemeteries held children buried with unrelated adults.

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

Beneath a quiet German field, researchers have uncovered signs of a medieval town that historians had been unable to locate for generations.

One of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon royal seals, belonging to Edward the Confessor, was thought to be lost after it went missing 40 years ago. CA reports on newly published research which describes the circumstances of the object’s rediscovery and offers illuminating insights into its innovative imagery.

Strap-ends from belts and other attachments are common finds from the early medieval period. This example was found by Cotswold Archaeology during an excavation in the market town of Halesworth in Suffolk

In honor of the 700th-anniversary founding of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria Pedralbes in Barcelona, scientists opened eight 14th-century graves and studied the 25 people found inside, including a queen.