NEWPORT'S Medieval Ship is one of the city's most treasured unique gems. The ship was first discovered in 2002 when work was undertaken to build the Riverfront Arts Centre. Advanced techniques have ...

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the ...

A new analysis indicates the human remains found in a well in Norway are from a 1197 raid described in a royal history. A new scientific examination of 800-year-old human remains in Norway ...

The Sverris saga, a quasi-fictional historical account from the end of the 12th century CE, recaps the reign of the medieval Norwegian king Sverre Sigurdsson. One of the best-known passages ...

and the Saxon traditions of kingship in the British Isles were replaced with a French-style monarchy that changed Britain’s destiny for centuries to come. A little less than half of the coins ...

The so-called Chew Valley Hoard, which just sold for a record $5.6 million, includes 2,584 coins featuring the likenesses of Harold II, William the Conqueror and Edward the Confessor Sonja ...

A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen Medieval women’s lives were ...

An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network of ancient trade routes that connected ...

In a farmer's field in southwest England, Staples and six friends had found a hoard of more than 2,500 silver coins that had lain ... England's Saxon monarchs with Norman French rulers.

as coins from this time were typically broken off into smaller parts to function as smaller denominations. According to Gareth Williams, a curator of early medieval coinage at the British museum ...

The detectorists - (left to right) Pete Young, Neil King, Jim Luxton, Clive Hammett and Paul May - hope the coins will be displayed in a museum The Teignbridge History Finders, based in Newton ...