A medieval church and burials were discovered as a university transforms a shopping center into an urban campus in the U.K. Mikal Ludlow Photography University of Gloucestershire Excavations in the ...

A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious Islamic tents were used to conceal altars in medieval European churches, ...

Archaeologist Rachel Wood holds a Roman bust found at the site of a Norman church. HS2 Archaeologists often joke that the real treasures are discovered on the last day of a dig. For a team in ...

Compass-drawn Hexfoil or “Daisy Wheel” designs from English medieval churches (all images courtesy Matthew Champion and Ebury Press) Champion writes that “the medieval church was a far more ...

Traces of a long-lost medieval church are thought to have been uncovered in the Piazza San Marco—the iconic square that sits at the heart of Venice, Italy. Archaeologists had been conducting ...

This CGI image shows what the church may have looked like when it was first built. Archaeologists found the church, which dates back to 1080, along with a small number of burials during construction ...

The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...

A Grade I listed medieval church at risk of disrepair has received two grants to fund the works needed to restore the building. Water has been leaking through the roof, windows and stonework at St ...

The medieval stone tower, among the oldest surviving structures in the area, has been raised on temporary supports so construction can continue beneath it, allowing the landmark to be integrated into ...