The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don't know why ...

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 ...

The find has already earned a punchy nickname: “Port Talbot’s Pompeii.” While no one is claiming volcanic ash here, the idea is that centuries of relatively undisturbed ground may have kept walls, ...

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

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

Found in an elite military hoard, this "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery challenges what we know about Iron Age warfare.

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

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.

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 ...

Image credits: Beach Academy / Beach Academy CIC. The tides here have always been a bit sticky-fingered, taking what they want and giving back only what they can’t digest. But this week, the currents ...