Changes in Western European burial practices spread rapidly during the 6th - 8th centuries AD, providing strong evidence that early Medieval Europe was a well-connected place with a shared culture.

Look at any map of Europe from the Middle Ages or the early modern era, before the Industrial Revolution, and you will be overwhelmed by its dizzying incoherence—all of those empires, kingdoms, ...

During the middle of the sixth century CE a dramatic transformation began in how the people of western Europe buried their dead. The transition from ‘furnished’ inhumation (those with grave goods to ...

New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first time in a millennium. The new exhibition also features more than 100 ...

LONDON — Like examining the growth rings of an ancient tree, scientists have developed a new way to analyze the “twigs” of human genetic family trees, revealing previously hidden patterns of migration ...

Quatrilobed Plaque, ca. 1300-1310, probably by Guillaume Julien (French), Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, gift of William Mathewson Milliken, ...