1+ week, 3+ day ago   (573+ words) A 2,400-year-old timber structure found beside the Main River in Aschaffenburg, Germany, is giving archaeologists new evidence about Iron Age building skills and the importance of the nearby settlement. Workers found the oak timbers in March 2026 during construction at a…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (724+ words) Archaeological work in 2026 has changed the dating of two medieval fortifications at Balchug, in modern Galich. Researchers from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences found no evidence for a pre-Mongol fortress at the Lower Hillfort. The…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (492+ words) A team of archaeologists and metal detectorists has begun a new survey of the battlefield where Polish-Lithuanian forces fought the Teutonic Order in 1410. About 40 researchers, detectorists and museum specialists will spend a week searching the fields around Grunwald in Poland’s…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (467+ words) Archaeologists are excavating the remains of a medieval settlement near Halberstadt in central Germany. The site lies beside the Frevelgraben, east of the city, near Gessnerstraße. The Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt began work at the site in March....

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (553+ words) A medieval monastery long thought to have vanished has been located beneath a sports field in Roskilde, Denmark. Ground-penetrating radar has revealed well-preserved remains of Sankt Clara monastery, built in the 13th century. The ruins lie about one meter below the…...