Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people ...

A More Dynamic Past “Taken together, the evidence paints early medieval England as a place of constant change. People arrived from near and far, stayed for a time or settled permanently, and shaped ...

Researchers give medieval Cambridge residents the 'Richard III treatment' to reveal hard-knock lives of those in the city during its famous university's early years. Study of over 400 remains from a ...

What was once a small window on the side of the church is now cemented shut. In front of it, a sign reads: “Site of the cell ...

Archaeologists working near Cambridge, England, have discovered the remains of a young girl who lived sometime during the 8th or 9th century. Unusually for the time, she was buried face down, a ...

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The Gosfield seal is made of a medieval silver seal bezel surrounding an ancient Roman gemstone.

Likely related to clashes between the kingdoms of Mercia and East Anglia, the site included the remains of a 6-foot-5 man who had undergone brain surgery ...

A red squirrel eating a hazlenut Alverstone Mead Nature Reserve in Sandown, England. (Credit: Peter Trimming, CC by 2.0 Generic) (CN) — The history of leprosy has been rewritten, thanks to a study ...

Map of regions in early medieval England and their proportional make up of Δ18Odw-MAP (Chenery) value classifications. (CREDIT: Medieval Archaeology) While male migration was more frequent overall, ...