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

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

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

As traces of the Middle Ages are uncovered in the heart of Berlin, a new museum — PETRI Berlin — has been founded to house ...

Elsewhere, a medieval loo and a jet die used to predict the future were among the finds uncovered at Auckland Castle in ...

Mysterious, ancient female figurines have been found by the dozens all over Denmark, and as far afield as England and Russia: inch-long bronze depictions of long-haired women, often wearing crested ...

Beneath a centuries-old chapel, archaeologists made a chilling find no one expected, London’s past is far from buried.

Excavations revealed everything from a 14th-century Black Death group burial to three skeletons from the late 12th or early 13th centuries buried in coffins.

New scientific testing reveals that the marble slab covering Emperor Otto I’s tomb in Magdeburg Cathedral did not come from Greece.

A peculiar seventh-century hoard unearthed in the English countryside could be the result of a "ritual killing," according to archaeologists.

Jia Xiaobing, an archaeologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says the latest studies on the Hongshan culture's ...

When we think of Venetian glass, our minds leap to the blazing furnaces of Murano, to delicate filigree and the vivid colors ...