For six hundred years, it remained buried underneath a thick blanket of sand and silt in the chilly waters between the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the largest-ever medieval “super ship” dating back to the 1400s, a discovery that prompts a ...

Maritime archaeologists in Copenhagen discovered the well-preserved remains of the Svaelget 2, a massive medieval merchant ...

The shipwreck is exceptionally preserved and provides the first archaeological confirmation of features seen in illustrations ...

Spotted off the coast of Denmark, the "Svaelget 2" is a cog, a kind of large trading vessel used in the Middle Ages. Experts ...

The remains of Svaelget 2 included a covered platform known as a "castle deck" where sailors could hide from the weather.

A massive cargo ship dating back 600 years has been discovered underwater, offering rare insight into medieval European trade.

Maritime archaeologists from Denmark's Viking Ship Museum have unearthed an extraordinary find beneath the waters near Copenhagen - the largest medieval cog ever discovered. The 600-year-old vessel ...

The circumstances surrounding the hoard's concealment point definitively to one of medieval Europe's most traumatic events. Archaeological evidence indicates the treasure was hidden during the ...

James Barrett, a professor of medieval and environmental archeology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's NTNU University Museum with replicas of the Lewis Chessmen, which were made ...

Medieval manuscripts are rich sources of knowledge about the past — and not all of the information is written on their pages. Élodie Lévêque at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris and her colleagues ...