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Museum of Shakespeare in Shoreditch to open in 2024 on site of playhouse that staged earliest performancesTheatre lovers will be able to walk across the Elizabethan stage where Shakespeare performed as an actor and may have staged the first performance…
Reconstructed rampart structure that stood almost 2,000 years ago will open to visitors in Richborough, KentAn 8-metre-high rampart and gateway built almost 2,000 years ago at the spot where Roman forces invaded Britain has been reconstructed for 21st-…
Excavation shows facility included luxurious dining rooms with views of fountains that gushed with wineOf all the Roman ruins that populate what is now a pleasant landscape of pine trees and meadows, under the distant gaze of the Alban Hills, the Villa…
Fossil from fourth-ever discovered specimen of a titanosaur may reinforce theory that dinosaurs travelled between South America and AustraliaFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app o…
The circular carved stone, unearthed at the Yucatán’s Chichén Itzá complex, displays hieroglyphic writing and two game playersA stone scoreboard used in an ancient ritual ball game has been discovered at the famed Mayan Chichén Itzá archaeological site…
Government to take over care of Llys Rhosyr, the 13th-century site used by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, to encourage more visitorsThe Welsh government has acquired the ruins of a medieval court used by the last native prince of Wales before the 13th-century E…
Human hair from Spanish island indicates consumption of substances during ritualistic ceremoniesResearchers have found evidence of drug use during bronze age ceremonies.Analysis of strands of human hair from a burial site in Menorca, Spain, indicates a…
A DOZEN severed hands discovered in an ancient Egyptian palace could have been chopped off captured enemies while they were still alive.
Archaeologists made the gruesome find in the courtyard of the palace in the city of Avaris which was inhabited b…
Metal used for west African artworks was acquired from manilla bracelets, the grim currency of the slave tradeScientists have discovered that some of the Benin bronzes were made with brass mined thousands of miles away in the German Rhineland.The Edo p…
Attack on archaeologist in Athens is thought to be linked to developers’ ‘out-of-control’ clamour to exploit islandUnder cover of darkness in an Athens side street earlier this month, Manolis Psarros, an archaeologist, was attacked as he walked toward …