Gothic crypt under the altar in the Lord's Chapel at Trenčín Castle. TRENČÍN, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that ...

SAXONY-ANHALT, GERMANY—Excavation of a seventeenth-century gallows site in eastern Germany revealed two bone pits and at least 16 individual graves, according to a Live Science report.

OSLO, NORWAY—According to a Science Norway report, a team of archaeologists used clues from an early nineteenth-century travel journal to find and begin to excavate the site of a shack on Norway ...

DONEGAL, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND—A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland’s northwestern coastline, according to a report in ...

DERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND—According to a report in The Belfast Telegraph, an excavation conducted in what is now the center of Derry uncovered city walls constructed between 1613 and 1619.

While digging beneath the transept of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral, archaeologists from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) recovered two lead sarcophagi.

Beginning in Late Antiquity, around the sixth century A.D., a powerful group of nomads known as the Avars ruled much of Europe—and nearly conquered Constantinople. The Avars were based in the ...

HATALOV, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that a 5,000-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in eastern Slovakia by researchers from the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—Artnet News reports that archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) working ahead of road construction in southern England uncovered two wells dug by the Romans ...

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA—Live Science reports that prehistoric burials have been discovered in Malaysia’s Nenggiri Valley. Zuliskandar Ramli of the National University of Malaysia said that the ...

WATERLOO, BELGIUM—The Independent reports that a trench containing human and animal remains has been excavated at the site of a British field hospital at Mont-Saint-Jean farm in Belgium by ...

READING, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Reading, excavations at the site of a monastery in southeastern England have uncovered another 20 intact Anglo-Saxon burials.