2+ week, 4+ day ago   (492+ words) 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…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (370+ words) Without written records, researchers turned to the people themselves. Bones and teeth became the main source of evidence. The project grew into one of the largest studies of medieval life ever carried out in Flanders. During the 13th century, Ypres ranked…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (232+ words) South of this area, the team found part of a wall, likely used to separate the ritual space from the wider settlement. Next to this wall stood a small room linked with ritual meals or gatherings. The room contained many…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (396+ words) Seven thousand-year-old wooden fish traps found in southern Norway are changing views of life before farming. The finds show Mesolithic hunter-fisher-gatherers moved brown trout into mountain lakes around 5000 BCE. They shaped local ecosystems thousands of years before crops and livestock…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (520+ words) The study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, examined the Novozavedennoye-III kurgan cemetery in Russia’s Stavropol region. The burial ground dates from about 430 to 300 BCE and holds one of the largest groups of Scythian horse remains from the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (408+ words) New excavations at the Coves del Fem rock shelter in northeastern Spain have uncovered rare evidence from both the last hunter-gatherers and the first farming communities. The finds offer one of the clearest records of how life changed as agriculture…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (416+ words) The finds came from rescue excavations before the construction of a hotel in the northern part of historic Vladimir. The excavation covered about 400 square meters and revealed cultural layers from the second half of the 12th century to the early 13th century....

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (458+ words) A medieval cemetery in Lithuania is changing what historians know about the early history of Vilnius. A new isotope study found that some of the city’s earliest Christians came from hundreds of kilometers away, showing that Europe’s last pagan state…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (460+ words) For the first time, researchers have identified an ancient Maya mathematician by name after decoding a painted wall text from the archaeological site of Xultun in northeastern Guatemala. The finding links a mathematical formula to an individual named Sak Tahn…...

2+ mon, 22+ hour ago   (544+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered a hoard of 59 Islamic silver coins near the Kaliningrad Lagoon, offering new evidence of trade between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Baltic region during the early Middle Ages. The coins date from CE 746 to 815, placing them among…...