But the coin found by the metal detectorist bears an inscription showing it was minted in Edinburgh. Alice Blackwell, senior ...

Archaeologists have discovered the 3,300-year-old cremated remains of at least eight people who were buried in five urns in Scotland. While it's unknown how they died, it was likely during some sort ...

The earliest known coin minted in Scotland – almost 900 years ago – has been acquired for the nation after it was found by a metal detectorist.

Scotland now has its first curator of osteoarchaeology through a new project aiming to enhance the care of and research into ...

Process under way to recatalogue artefacts held in huge archaeology storehouse - Archaeologists are repackaging thousands of ...

The remains of two Bronze Age people found in a long-lost burial chamber by a farmer ploughing a field are revealing their secrets at Scotland’s new facility for storing and researching archaeological ...

Bronze Age weapons hoard belonging to the elite, buried over 3,000 years ago in Carnoustie, reveals the lives of warriors ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.