Archaeologists have unearthed an astonishing collection of metalwork in North Yorkshire, shedding new light on the power, wealth, and transport of Late Iron Age Britain. The Melsonby hoards, ...

Archaeologists from the UCL Institute of Archaeology have made a significant discovery in Kent, unearthing some of the largest stone artifacts from prehistoric times in Britain. The excavations, ...

In addition to the Ossick Lass, the remains of at least seven other individuals had also recovered from the cave. Human remains buried over 11,000 years ago in Heaning Wood Bone Cave, Cumbria, ...

There’s something deeply compelling about standing where others once stood thousands of years ago—tracing footsteps in soil once trodden by Romans, Saxons or Norman knights. The past, so often ...

Professor Tom Moore, head of archaeology at Durham University, holds a decorative copper alloy finial from a huge Iron Age hoard discovered in a Yorkshire field (Durham University/PA Wire) A ...

Britain was inhabited by complex societies long before Roman legions arrived. Many of these tribes left no written records and slowly disappeared from history. Archaeology offers clues to who they ...

COVENTRY, ENGLAND—A submerged archaeological site off the southern coast of England has yielded DNA from 8,000-year-old wheat. At the time, Mesolithic Britons were hunter-gatherers, but the DNA, ...

New research is revealing the remarkable story of one of Britain’s most enigmatic archaeological finds - a Roman gladiator helmet, discovered buried in a field in East Anglia. The artefact, which will ...

This summer, the University of Reading Archaeology Field School excavated one of the most extraordinary sites we have ever had the pleasure of investigating. The site is an Early Neolithic long barrow ...