In September 2024, a metal detectorist scouring a farm about 45 miles northeast of London found a silver, oval pendant measuring about one-inch-long. The piece included an inscribed frame of mirrored ...

The Gosfield seal is made of a medieval silver seal bezel surrounding an ancient Roman gemstone.

An unusual archaeological discovery in the Judean Hills has again attracted the attention of scientists. A silver goblet from ...

A hoard of hundreds of Roman-era silver coins and precious metals was recovered in northern Germany, years after it went ...

ANCIENT Romans used human poo to treat common ailments, archaeologists have revealed. The grim discovery is the first direct ...

A familiar portrait of Anne Boleyn has just yielded an unfamiliar secret. Infrared scanning and tree-ring dating suggest an Elizabethan artist deliberately altered the so-called “Hever Rose” portrait ...

The only building described in detail by Vitruvius has finally been found, after centuries of searching.

Recent archaeological discoveries at the Bair Mound monument shed new light on the religious and cultural diversity of the region in the 3rd century BC. Among the most significant finds are a ...

Archaeologists have confirmed the existence of a protohistoric settlement dating from between the 7th and 6th centuries BC at ...

The dark bowels of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, just yielded an ancient secret.

A double burial found in southern Italy more than 60 years ago has just yielded a striking new secret: ancient DNA has confirmed a rare inherited form of dwarfism in a teenage girl who lived around 12 ...

The latest evidence follows the landmark discovery of a musket ball hole in the wall of the Prince’s bedroom last year.