A massive archaeological discovery in County Wicklow suggests that ancient Irish people lived in dense urban prehistoric ...
The carved head is made of red sandstone. University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute An intricately carved head made of red sandstone has been found on one of Scotland’s Orkney ...
The world of early medieval Europe is sometimes hard to grasp for 21st-century Americans. The fog of the “dark ages” still lingers, casting the period as a fundamentally unknowable time, a period of ...
A weekend metal detector outing on a Norwegian farm has turned into one of the most intriguing Viking Age finds in years, revealing a grave that looks less like a tidy burial and more like a ritual ...
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