The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

In 2022, archaeologists worked on the ancient DNA from a number of early medieval cemeteries, and found two individuals that stood out. One was from Updown Eastry in Kent, known as Updown girl, and ...

Earlier this week, archaeologists unveiled the facial reconstruction of the remains of a seventh-century CE Anglo-Saxon teenage girl found in a rare “bed burial” in 2012. It’s part of a new exhibit at ...

The grave of a girl who lived more than 1,300 years ago in Great Britain continues to intrigue and baffle scientists and historians. She was ceremoniously laid to rest with a gold and garnet-encrusted ...

In the seventh century B.C., Tartessos once reached great heights as a rich society full of skilled craftsmen. New excavations have revealed surprising facts about how this culture was seemingly ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists discovered 97 gold coins in what they call one of the rarest discoveries ever. The coins come from the seventh century C.E. and were ...

Byzantine bullion fueled Europe's revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in Charlemagne's Francia a century later, new tests reveal.

LONDON - Archaeologists excavating near Cambridge have stumbled upon a rare and mysterious find: The skeleton of a seventh-century teenager buried in an ornamental bed along with a gold-and-garnet ...