Archaeologists working at the “Eagle’s Nest” burial ground near Astrakhan in southern Russia have uncovered an unusually large medieval sabre dating to the second half of the thirteenth century.
A fifteenth-century manuscript held for decades in the collection of Heidelberg University Library has been identified as part of the famed Bibliotheca Palatina, one of the most important libraries of the Renaissance.
The Egyptian archaeological mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has announced a series of major discoveries during its latest excavation season at the Abu El-Naga area on Luxor’s West Bank, revealing new insights into burial practices and previously unknown individuals from ancient Egypt.
A search operation carried out between Andczyca and Topola Królewska has uncovered further traces linked to the 1939 Battle of the Bzura, one of the most important clashes of the September Campaign in Poland.
Unusually low water levels on Hungary’s Tisza River have exposed centuries-old wooden bridge remains near the city of Szolnok far earlier than expected, raising concerns among archaeologists that the historic structures could begin to deteriorate beyond repair.
Archaeologists working on the A66 route in Cumbria, England, have uncovered more traces of an early medieval settlement near Kirkby Thore.
A team of archaeologists working in Starocherkasskaya, near Rostov-on-Don in Russia, has uncovered objects linked to a local Cossack legend from the Civil War era.
New research suggests Dante Alighieri’s Inferno may have done more than shape literary history — it may also have anticipated concepts in planetary impact science centuries before modern meteoritics emerged.
Archaeologists have discovered a rare, intact Roman grave during excavations in Vinkovci, Croatia, at the site of a future city market.
Construction works in Krakow, Poland, were halted as workers dug up a pile of unexploded wartime ordnance buried beneath its surface.
Work has started on a major community archaeology project at a Roman villa site near the English village of Halberton, where experts fear years of ploughing are gradually destroying important remains buried beneath farmland.