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.

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.

Medieval Music Fragments from Württemberg Monasteries

AI Is Helping Archaeologists read damaged texts, map hidden landscapes, and test reconstructions — while reminding us that evidence still matters.

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.

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.

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.

Researchers found a reference to the town in a 1909 book. Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Medieval City. Stolzenberg (~1300) uncovered in NW Poland. Streets, a moat and a market square have been mapped. Why it was abandoned remains unknown.

Settlements of Angles, Saxons and Jutes in Britain in about 600

Wessex: Born in a fractured post-Roman world, it endured by binding warband, land, and belief—turning border struggles (c. 550–650) into a kingdom that endured.

The discoveries are considered as key indicators of elite or high-status sites in the period. Credit - University of York

Skipsea Castle: Archaeology reveals a lost Anglo-Saxon lordly centre beneath the Norman mound, reshaping how we understand power on the eve of 1066.

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