Ship-shaped graves have been identified at the site, which came to light during investigations of an earlier Stone Age ...

A medieval burial marker uncovered in a Dundee graveyard has been described by an archaeologist as a mystery that keeps "giving and giving". The marker, believed to date from the 12th or 13th ...

At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife ...

In the aftermath of the Spain floods, streets look like they have been blasted back to the Medieval period, covered by layers ...

A rare, early medieval cemetery has been unearthed in ... Was the cemetery used over a long period of time as burial practices were changing? Or were some people being marked out as different?

Researchers believe early Medieval villagers in England buried a teenage girl face-down in a pit — a deviation from the time period's typical burial practices — to prevent her from coming back ...

Archeologists studying a burial site near a medieval monastery spotted a rare find when examining one of the bodies: the faint remains of a series of Christian symbols tattooed on the person's foot.

The remains of a porpoise mysteriously buried on a small island have been dated to the medieval period. But experts remain baffled over why the sea creature seems to have been placed in a grave ...