The newly discovered evidence of Black Africans' descendants living in early Anglo-Saxon era Britain comes from DNA tests (carried out as part of a mainly Anglo-German study) on two 7th century ...

This latest book to add to this history is The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman, which addresses both themes of English unification and viking politics. It ...

An archaeological dig in northern England shows iron and lead processing continued and even increased after the departure of ...

Excavations revealed everything from a 14th-century Black Death group burial to three skeletons from the late 12th or early ...

The dig might have uncovered some of the earliest victims of the Black Death, and other tantalizing clues about medieval life ...

GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that an 1,800-year-old kiln has been discovered just underneath the surface of the ground on private land in southwestern England. Stamps on tiles recovered ...

DORSET, ENGLAND—Dorset View reports that a nearly complete wooden spade was uncovered in a waterlogged area near Poole Harbor in southern England by researchers from Wessex Archaeology. “It’s made of ...

The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere – a latticework of dry, ...

A Newcastle University student from Florida discovered medieval gold within 90 minutes of her first archaeological dig. The excavation site in Northumberland was chosen after a metal detectorist found ...

In this talk based on her recent book, The Shock of Colonialism in New England: Fragments from a Frontier, archaeologist Dr. Meghan C. L. Howey shares her research on the seventeenth-century colonial ...