Yet, despite their importance for the state in maintaining the rule of law, executioners were outcasts. They lived on the ...

Vikings played a significant role in the global walrus ivory trade, traveling long distances and interacting with Arctic ...

Walking Mountains’ science-themed Halloween event, Fright at the Museum, returns after a four-year hiatus on Saturday, Oct.

In 2011, some 60 art institutions in Southern California got together to create a region-wide art collaboration called ...

A gold coin unearthed at the site of a medieval fortress in Bulgaria indicates the wealth of the people who lived there ...

Much of his argument hinges on a trait that sets humans apart from other animals: the extraordinary complexity of their ...

Combining science and history, the free, fun family activity day takes a closer look at the slaying of the Red Comyn in ...

Czerwień once consisted of the primary hill fort, an ancillary settlement immediately adjacent to the fort and burial grounds located slightly further away, among other constructions. It was likely ...

The Thule Inuit people and Norse both hunted walrus in the High Arctic in the 13th century, according to a new study.

A 1,000-YEAR-OLD secret has accidentally been unearthed by a French man wanting to renovate his cellar. In the dirt beneath his house lie dozens of medieval skeletons across 38 graves and 10 ...

Finding in southern Paris may lead to better understanding of population that lived in the region during Antiquity and early Middle Ages, archaeologists say ...

Archaeologists have discovered the skeletal remains of three individuals within a former medieval stronghold in Poland who were possibly victims of ... to the village of Czermno in Lublin Province ...