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Archaeologists hail ‘exceptional finds’ at venue whose existence was previously known only from mentions in ancient textsThe ruins of Nero’s Theatre, an imperial theatre referred to in ancient Roman texts but never found, have been discovered under the…
DNA analysis of tooth enamel solves puzzle of 2,000-year-old grave on Bryher also containing sword and mirrorScientists have solved the mystery of a 2,000-year-old grave on the Isles of Scilly, raising intriguing questions about warfare in iron age Bri…
‘Polissoir’, discovered in Valley of Stones nature reserve, was used about 5,000 years ago to hone tools such as axesAt first glance it looked like nothing more than a rugged boulder jumbled among many others on the floor of a valley in the West Countr…
THE sunken bounty of a 300-year-old shipwreck off the British coast has been revealed after it was dragged up from the deep.
A cache of coins and sabres are among the 2,500 artefacts recovered from the wreckage of the 18th-century Dutch ship, the R…
Scientists studied jewelry made from now extinct creatures and theorize that humans arrived in Americas 27,000 years agoNew research suggests humans lived in South America at the same time as now extinct giant sloths, bolstering evidence that people ar…
Comb and gold hair-ring dating back more than 3,000 years unearthed near Barry in south WalesThey are sometimes depicted as unkempt and wild-haired and but the discovery of what is being billed as possibly the UK’s oldest wooden comb suggests prehistor…
With cruise ships decanting thousands of tourists in Athens, tough new controls have been imposed at the country’s most visited siteIt’s official: more than 25 centuries after it was built and nearly 200 years after it began attracting tourists, the Ac…
Discovery of more than 800 artefacts includes some of largest early prehistoric stone tools in BritainResearchers have discovered some of the largest early prehistoric stone tools in Britain, including a foot-long handaxe almost too big to be handled.T…
Linmere site has more monumental pits in a single area than anywhere else in England and WalesA prehistoric site with as many as 25 monumental pits has been discovered in Bedfordshire to the astonishment of archaeologists.Found in Linmere, they date fr…
Statues were unearthed last year in what was a place of worship for both the Etruscans and RomansA trove of bronze statues buried by mud and boiling water for thousands of years before being found in the ruins of a network of ancient thermal springs in…