The cemetery found in Suffolk consists of at least 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds (barrows) dating to the 6th–7th centuries AD. While acidic sandy soils have dissolved the bones, the excavators have ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

Archaeologists in England unearthed the remains of two people buried alongside a fully harnessed horse bearing weapons in a ...

The Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him fame ...

A British excavation has brought to light a sixth century burial assemblage that specialists are already describing as a ...

The remains of a 3,000-year-old village were recently discovered in a clay quarry called Must Farm in eastern England. The wooden houses were destroyed by fire, and the charred timbers gradually sank ...

The British Museum is stepping up the search for hundreds of antiquities, stolen in 2023, by hiring a dedicated treasure ...

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.

Around 18,000 years ago, ice age people in what is now Ukraine likely weathered the extremely harsh climate by building parts of their shelters out of mammoth bones, a new study finds. The mammoth ...

The dig might have uncovered some of the earliest victims of the Black Death, and other tantalizing clues about medieval life in the citadel. The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of ...