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This rare feature, found only in North Holland, has left archaeologists baffled as to why someone would choose such a morbid material. Reading time 2 minutes Hundreds of years ago, someone in the ...

A FLOORING company is demanding more than £1million in compensation after the discovery of the ancient burial ground of a medieval friary on the site of its planned new base in Scotland. Manorgate Ltd ...

Engineering works at Coventry Cathedral have uncovered its original medieval floor for the first time in 75 years. The floor was concealed when rubble was pounded down to make the ground safe after ...

Historic medieval flooring, at the exact spot where King Charles will be crowned inside Westminster Abbey, is going to be opened to visitors - as long as they take off their shoes. Abbey authorities ...

An old wooden floor in Coventry has been named one of the most historically important in Britain. The warped floorboards in a small upstairs room at the medieval St Mary’s Guildhall in Bayley Lane, ...

THERE’S an unusual exhibit at one of Lidl’s Irish stores. A glass floor installed at one of the budget supermarket’s outlets in Dublin reveals the ruins of a 1,000-year-old Viking-Irish house. Images ...

Divers off the coast of Sicily discovered a medieval battle helmet used during Spanish rule on the island. Screengrab of Soprintendenza del Mare's Facebook post Scientific divers off the coast of ...

Archaeological excavations at the heart of London's political power have revealed remarkable prehistoric tools, medieval treasures, and architectural remains spanning six millennia beneath the Palace ...