At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...

Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places ...

When the HS2 railway was first announced, a lot of people were understandably thrilled. The railway is supposed to link Britain’s two largest cities, London and Birmingham, via a new, high-speed ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the largest prehistoric village in Britain and Ireland, revealing over 600 ancient homes in ...

New DNA analysis of the remains of a Roman-era individual known as Beachy Head Woman indicates that she came from ...

The Baltinglass hillfort cluster, sometimes referred to as "Ireland's Hillfort Capital," has long fascinated archaeologists with its exceptional concentration of prehistoric monuments. According to ...

New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in ...

Ancient England had more "bling" than historians have given it credit for. That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back ...

New research is revealing the remarkable story of one of Britain’s most enigmatic archaeological finds - a Roman gladiator helmet, discovered buried in a field in East Anglia. The artefact, which will ...

Thanks to the creative application of new technologies, the 2020s are quietly shaping up to be a golden age of archaeology. Analysis of ancient DNA has resolved long-debated questions about human ...

The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere – a latticework of dry, ...