On a summer morning in 2022, in a quaint field near Bickmarsh, England, the threat of Viking hoards pillaging early medieval ...

Two people buried in early medieval England had West African ancestry, experts have revealed, in a discovery that rewrites British history. The find provides the first direct evidence of a connection ...

At the panel, which was co-hosted by Harvard’s Committee on Medieval Studies and the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past, a group of Harvard faculty agreed with the researchers that the ...

Archaeologists have analyzed the DNA of two unrelated individuals buried in 7th-century-AD cemeteries on the south coast of England, revealing that they both had recent ancestors, likely grandparents, ...

Many mainstream economic historians do believe the average number of working days for peasant laborers in England hovered around, and even sometimes below, 150 days per year for certain stretches of ...

The cave's floor is largely undisturbed, so archaeologists are hopeful it may help answer questions about the transition between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in Britain. University of Aberdeen ...

The seemingly fantastical world of the Middle Ages has held western popular culture in fascination since (at least) its nostalgic reimagining by Victorian antiquarians. Unfortunately, there is also a ...