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, ...
Archaeologists have unearthed an astonishing collection of metalwork in North Yorkshire, shedding new light on the power, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
A rare gold coin found by a metal detectorist and recently auctioned off was minted by a little-known ruler in pre-Roman Britain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
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 ...
More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years ago One of the biggest and most important iron age hoards ever found in the UK has been ...
ALDBOROUGH, ENGLAND—When the Romans conquered Britain in the first century a.d., they transformed the island into an industrial powerhouse, particularly by means of large-scale extraction and ...