Leather baby boot (Photo Marquita Volken/© Office of Culture and Gentle Craft) A leather fragment of a late fourteenth-century child’s shoe was recovered during rescue excavations beneath the cobbled ...

British folklore tells the story of twin brothers Hengist and Horsa, who led the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. But were ...

The sturdy, well-built structure was likely constructed on dry land at a time when sea levels were much lower than they are ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

In the old quarter of a Breton town, a routine construction project turned into a rare encounter with the Middle Ages.

Through the centuries, ownership of the historic city of Ani and its churches has passed from one culture to another.

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

Maximum external diameter of 0.84 inches, weight o.2 ounces Rings can have many meanings. They can be tokens of friendship, badges of wealth, markers of membership, or symbols of union. Unlike many ...

Elsewhere, a medieval loo and a jet die used to predict the future were among the finds uncovered at Auckland Castle in ...

Mysterious, ancient female figurines have been found by the dozens all over Denmark, and as far afield as England and Russia: inch-long bronze depictions of long-haired women, often wearing crested ...

Beneath a centuries-old chapel, archaeologists made a chilling find no one expected, London’s past is far from buried.