The Prospect of their Ma'ties Castle of Sterling'. Engraving from John Slezer's 'Theatrum Scotiae' 1693 (National Library of Scotland)

Did a Trebuchet Kill this man at Stirling Castle? A skeleton with 167 fractures may reveal the devastating force of Edward I’s medieval siege engines.

Selja - The wall is the second discovery made outside the known monastery ruins - Photo - Regin Meyer, NIKU.

Sacred Site Selja hides a wall archaeologists never knew existed, deepening its story beyond Saint Sunniva's legend.

Aerial view of Polače harbour, Mljet - Polače Marina, Mljet, Croatia. Photograph by dronepicr, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Shipwreck off Mljet has yielded gold regalia, coins, and rare proof that the early medieval Adriatic remained connected, not silent.

National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik. A warp-weighted loom, in Iceland in use till the 19th century.

Massive Viking Textile Production: Archaeologists near Aarhus uncovered a 100,000 sq m Viking textile hub with 82 pit houses, silver, and trade goods, reshaping Viking economic history.

Notre Dame, Paris

Paris Excavates Its Origins: Beneath Notre-Dame's forecourt, archaeologists are uncovering 2,000 years of history, from medieval cellars to Roman Lutetia, ahead of a 2028 transformation.

The Clermont-Tonnerre Grail manuscript, expected to fetch up to £2 million in an auction. (Christie's Images Ltd. 2026)

A rare 13th-century Arthurian manuscript with 126 gold-leaf illustrations — unseen for 700 years — heads to Christie's on 8 July with an estimate of up to £2m.

Largest coin hoard in Norwegian history. Credit - Innlandet County Authority

Viking Silver Found in Norway's largest-ever hoard: 4,700+ coins unearthed near Rena, Østerdalen in 2026, dating to the late 1040s — a once-in-a-lifetime find.

Anglo-Saxon Brother and Sister Burial. Photo - © Neil Max Emmanuel Time Team

An Elder Sister's Care: DNA confirms Anglo-Saxon siblings buried together at Cherington—a 1,400-year-old double grave rewriting how we understand early medieval family bonds.

GA 015 Megisti Lavra sparagmata, 7v Tof the Megisti Lavra

The Bible manuscript Codex H, stripped apart at Mount Athos and hidden in medieval bindings, is being digitally reconstructed — its ghost text recovered after 1,400 years.

From left to right, graves 229, 230, 231 and 232 during excavation, upmost layer (figure © Archäologische Bodenforschung Basel-Stadt; photographs by A. Jost).

Plague: Fifteen skeletons beneath a Basel concert hall confirm Y. pestis in Switzerland's last epidemic. Their worn bones and poor diets reveal inequality shaped who died.

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