A More Dynamic Past “Taken together, the evidence paints early medieval England as a place of constant change. People arrived from near and far, stayed for a time or settled permanently, and shaped ...

Researchers give medieval Cambridge residents the 'Richard III treatment' to reveal hard-knock lives of those in the city during its famous university's early years. Study of over 400 remains from a ...

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Archaeologists working near Cambridge, England, have discovered the remains of a young girl who lived sometime during the 8th or 9th century. Unusually for the time, she was buried face down, a ...

The Gosfield seal is made of a medieval silver seal bezel surrounding an ancient Roman gemstone.

For generations, a misidentified medieval manuscript was hidden in a 474-year-old English boarding school’s library. After a ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

A video of a "surreal" view inside a kitchen that served royals in medieval England has left viewers on TikTok obsessed. The footage showcases the interior of Gainsborough Old Hall, located in the ...

Living in a Gothic manor on an estate that dates back to the Middle Ages, David Hunt and his wife, Colette, are often asked about ghosts. At least one of the previous owners met a gruesome death, but ...

A red squirrel eating a hazlenut Alverstone Mead Nature Reserve in Sandown, England. (Credit: Peter Trimming, CC by 2.0 Generic) (CN) — The history of leprosy has been rewritten, thanks to a study ...

Map of regions in early medieval England and their proportional make up of Δ18Odw-MAP (Chenery) value classifications. (CREDIT: Medieval Archaeology) While male migration was more frequent overall, ...