Viking kings and nobles were among the first in history to put glass into the windows of their timber-framed longhouses, archaeologists have discovered. Photo shows Mads Dengso Jessen, Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark, with a piece of window glass fragment from the Viking Age, undated. New research…
A shipwreck thought to date back hundreds of years to medieval times has been found perfectly preserved at the bottom of a lake. Picture shows the ten meter long wooden boat at the bottom of Lake Mjosa, Norway. Scientists suspect it has been there since the Middle Ages, it was…
Archaeologists have used artificial intelligence to identify where all the stones go in order to reconstruct an ancient lighthouse originally built on the orders of Roman Emperor Nero. The ancient lighthouse was destroyed by a mediaeval tsunami but most of the stones remain scattered at the scene and the team…
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least four Viking warriors who probably worked as debt collectors for a local warlord at a medieval grave site in a small Polish village. The 11th-century remains were found at the medieval burial ground in the village of Cieple in the northern Polish…
Story By: Angjela Trajkovska, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/Ronilacki Klub BUK This underwater footage shows a sword in a stone that a team of archaeologists have pulled free just like King Arthur. The sword was found in the River Vrbas in the village of Rekavica in the municipality of Banja Luka in…
