Medieval

High in Spain’s southern mountains, 40 or so people armed with pitchforks and spades cleared stones and piles of grass from an earthwork channel built centuries ago and still keeping the slopes green.“It’s a matter of life,” said Antonio…

As It Happens6:33Scientists map medieval town that's been buried beneath the sea for 661 yearsRungholt was once a booming trade town where residents reaped profits from the land's bountiful natural resources — until a changing climate and…

Xbox Game Pass is adding seven new games during the second half of April, leading into May, with Redfall arriving as a day-one title. In it, you're transported to the titular island town to thwart a legion of vampires who've blocked out the…

<!-- -->View of Beach Road, Happisburgh, in 2009 and 2023 respectively.When Nicola Bayless's parents bought a house in Happisburgh, an idyllic coastal village in Norfolk, England, they were told it would be 150 years before erosion of…

A Dutch historian found unique 1,000-year-old medieval golden treasure, consisting of four golden ear pendants, two strips of gold leaf and 39 silver coins, the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) announced on…

Scientists who study the origins and evolution of the plague have examined hundreds of ancient human teeth from Denmark, seeking to address longstanding questions about its arrival, persistence and spread within Scandinavia. In the first…

CNN  —  Building Amsterdam’s North-South metro line was big trouble – a budget-blowing 15-year operation that involved carefully burrowing beneath the foundations of…

Written by Issy RonaldHafsa Khalil, CNNEvery metal detectorist dreams of unearthing something valuable. For one man the English countryside yielded an incredible find when he stumbled upon a medieval diamond wedding ring in "almost perfect…

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In medieval Norway, high status individuals tended to be taller and to have stronger bones, possibly as a result of a favorable lifestyle, according to a study published October 19, 2022 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Elin Brødholt…