The Goths, a group of Germanic tribes, were famed for being fierce adversaries of the Roman Empire. Detailed accounts of their “barbaric” conquests — and their infamous sacking of Rome in 410 A.D. — ...

In 1968, excavators uncovered a nearly 1,000-year-old grave in Finland thought to be occupied by a warrior woman, given the presence of both jewelry and a pristine sword in the grave. In 1968, ...

A bizarre medieval grave containing the remains of a porpoise is still baffling experts months after its discovery. The grave was discovered in September 2017 on an islet off the west coast of the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. When the brick coffin of a young woman from ...

Archaeologists excavating a medieval site on a tiny islet in the English Channel were baffled by the discovery of a dolphin skeleton in what appears to be a carefully prepared grave. The researchers ...