New ancient DNA analysis has shed light on how the black rat, blamed for spreading Black Death, dispersed across Europe -- revealing that the rodent colonized the continent on two occasions in the ...

ANTWERP, BELGIUM—According to a Science News report, Mike Kestemont of the University of Antwerp and environmental statistician Anne Chao of National Tsing Hua University applied a technique developed ...

A study involving over 26,000 individual graves in England, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands explores the changes to burial practices and use of 'grave goods' between the ...

On the occasion of the European Archaeology Days 2026, Viarmes offers a plunge into a medieval past that can still be ...

King Arthur’s lasting renown is one for the books. But a statistical spotlight now shines on medieval European literature’s round table of lost and forgotten stories. An international team used a ...

A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU ...

Detail from a manuscript made for King Lebna Dengel, circa 1520, Tädbabä Maryam Monastery, Ethiopia. Photograph by Diana Spencer, courtesy of the DEEDS Project In early 2020, just as the scope and ...

New research reveals how curious medieval artifacts are helping uncover the hidden world of sensory experiences in the Middle ...

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