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

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

A new study suggests that Western adults are cultural outliers who learn to reject a natural human love for ornamentation.

A quiet hillside in southern Scotland has yielded one of the most unsettling archaeological discoveries in recent memory, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

CHENNAI – A groundbreaking archaeological excavation in Tamil Nadu is challenging existing global timelines for the Iron Age. Researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that iron-making in the ...

Jimmy Jones was riding an ATV on the Quinhagak beach in the aftermath of a historic storm last week when he saw something in the erosion-scoured landscape that stopped him. It looked almost spooky, ...

Long before anyone claimed to be a “native Coloradan,” there were cliff dwellers, hunter-gatherers and even Ice Age inhabitants shaping the landscape. Many of their settlements have been excavated in ...

Scotland is famous the world over for its collection of medieval castles, and a team of volunteer archaeologists have have just added a new one to the list. Most intriguingly, the castle they believe ...

Archaeologists have recently uncovered the traces of a millennium old building at the location of the Pictish fort of Burghead in Moray, Scotland. The fort dates back to the time of Alfred the Great ...