A team of underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University has unearthed a 1,000-year-old carved wooden beam in Lake Lednica, western Poland. The object was excavated during an…

Over recent years, digitization efforts have made sixteenth- and seventeenth-century printed books more widely available than ever before. Scholars are now able to search digital transcriptions for…

Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered a unique and elegantly crafted jewel from the moat of the medieval Castle Kolno, once situated along a ducal border. The silver…

A recent paleogenomic study has revealed incredible genetic continuity and subtle social interactions among prehistoric populations in the Eastern Italian Alps that once sheltered Ötzi the Iceman….

After decades of research and field surveys, archaeologists have finally discovered the ancient Byzantine town of Tharais in southern Jordan. This find promises to reveal new insights…

For over a hundred years, the small hilltop village of Rennes-le-Château in southern France has been the subject of fascination. Historians, treasure hunters, and conspiracy theorists alike…

A literary enigma that has puzzled scholars for more than a century might have finally been unraveled. Researchers at Cambridge University have reinterpreted a fragment of the…

A recent archaeological study is rewriting our understanding of medieval food and the Christian influence on the foodways of Europe. Contrary to long-held ᴀssumptions that Christianity led…

A new study, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal by Dr. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, reveals an astonishing transformation in elk images in 12,000 years of Altai rock art…