Medieval News

This week's news from the medievalverse has Anders Winroth talking about his new book The Age of the Vikings, funding for Newport's ...

Some recent news on what medieval items people are finding in England and Wales... Archaeologists working in Norfolk have discovered the r...

Ancient artifacts resembling the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient bronze clockwork astronomical calculator, may rest amid the larger-than...

Researchers have now assigned a date to the sensational find of a rowboat. The dating cements the small vessel’s position as Denmark’s onl...

The archers who fought on Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, would have been elite soldiers for their time, standing o...

The origins of the Newport Medieval Ship may have finally been solved – with new research announced yesterday pointing to the north of Spa...

Hungarian archaeologists have found what they believe may be an intact medieval shipwreck in the Danube river. Partially buried in mud an...

An 800-year-old shipwreck has been found by divers off the south coast of Sweden, prompting archaeologists to ponder the potential treasures...

A project to clear rubbish from a cellar in the English village of Winchelsea has led to the discovery of a series of medieval graffiti insc...

Wooden fish traps said to be some 9,000 years old have been found in the Baltic Sea off Sweden, possibly the oldest such traps in existenc...

Two Roman-era shipwrecks have been found in deep water off a western Greek island, challenging the conventional theory that ancient shipmast...

A decade of the Newport Medieval Ship will be celebrated next month at the site of the original discovery.  ‘The Newport Medieval Ship: ...

Sulphur and iron compounds have now been found in shipwrecks both in the Baltic and off the west coast of Sweden. The group behind the resu...

Evidence that a Florentine merchant house financed the earliest English voyages to North America, has been published on-line in the academic...

Evidence of ancient smuggling activity has emerged from a Roman shipwreck, according to Italian archaeologists who have investigated the ...

Remnants of a relatively well-preserved 13-century ship discovered under a Tallinn warehouse will remain unresearched for the time being due...

A unique project about the historical warship the Mary Rose which is providing information about life in medieval times is benefitting from ...

Archaeologists on Monday began restoration on a 4,500-year-old wooden boat found next to the pyramids, one of Egypt's main tourist attra...

The Agency for Cultural Affairs plans to have the seabed off Nagasaki Prefecture where the wreck of a ship believed to have been used by 13t...

Turkey is going to build the perfect replica of a Byzantine ship for scientific purposes. The copy of the medieval ship, nearly 10 metres lo...