Avar graves discovered near Hungary’s M1 motorway provide new insight into medieval settlement patterns and early European history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Written records had indicated that about 12,000 people were buried in large pits outside the city of Erfurt, but their exact ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study of 939 skeletons finds medieval Danes did not exclude leprosy or TB sufferers from high-status graves. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / ...

Danish archaeologists recently unearthed dozens of medieval graves, shedding light on how disease and hardship shaped life in early Christian Denmark. Officials from the Moesgaard Museum in Beder, ...

Medieval Christians in Denmark showed off their wealth in death by buying prestigious graves: the closer to the church, the higher the price. Researchers used these gravesites to investigate social ...

Archaeologists in Central Europe recently uncovered an ancient grave – reopened not by modern looters, but by medieval Poles over 1,000 years ago. The excavation took place at the Nowy Chorów cemetery ...

A stunning discovery has reshaped the historical map of Clermont-Ferrand. During development work on the place des Carmes, archaeologists unearthed more than one hundred medieval graves, revealing a ...

According to a Daily News Hungary report, more than 100 medieval graves and traces of a medieval settlement were discovered during an investigation conducted ahead of a road construction project in ...

Archaeologists excavated a 900-year-old burial mound and found evidence of the graves being reopened by ‘looters,’ photos show. Photo from S. Wadyl via Wadyl, Szczepanik, Fetner, Jaskulska and ...

Experts have discovered an unusual medieval burial that shows evidence of "anti-vampire" measures being taken. The bizarre archaeological discovery was made at a site on Góra Chełmska, a ridge near ...

Danish archaeologists recently unearthed dozens of medieval graves, shedding light on how disease and hardship shaped life in early Christian Denmark. Officials from the Moesgaard Museum in Beder, ...