For six hundred years, it remained buried underneath a thick blanket of sand and silt in the chilly waters between the countries of Denmark and Sweden.” However, “the world’s largest medieval merchant ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the largest-ever medieval “super ship” dating back to the 1400s, a discovery that prompts a rethink of the scale of medieval trade across northern Europe. Built around ...

What was life really like for the merchants, craftsmen and traders in London in the middle ages? Whilst the majority of people who worked in the Medieval Period were peasants, a significant community ...