One public health expert calls the sewage system in Rio largely "medieval," comparable with London or Paris in the 14th or 15th century. And it's not just Rio. Fewer than half of households ...

TRENČÍN, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that a medieval barbican, or fortified gateway, and a network of passages that acted as a sewerage system have been uncovered in western Slovakia ...

The Historical Museum of Northern JutlandJannick Vestergaard and Henning Nøhr proudly holding the medieval sword they pulled out of a Danish sewer. As pipe layers and engineers, Jannick ...

Nielsen added that although the sword was found within a layer of the sewer's waste, during medieval times, that layer sat "on top of the oldest of Algade's old pavements." Whoever crafted the ...

As Smithsonian reports, a pipe layer and an engineer recently found a sword from the medieval era while doing construction work on a sewer in Aalborg, Denmark’s fourth-largest city. The relic ...

Repairs to a Reading town centre road have been further delayed due to sub-zero temperatures and the discovery of Medieval remains ... working on a surface water sewer main in the street.

So it came as something of a surprise when a very fine medieval sword was recently found deep within a sewer in Denmark. As Live Science’s Laura Geggel reports, the relic was uncovered by pipe ...