Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Archaeologists from the UCL Institute of Archaeology have made a significant discovery in Kent, unearthing some of the largest stone artifacts from prehistoric times in Britain. The excavations, ...

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 ...

A unique archaeological find uncovered near the site of a Roman villa in Dorset could help to shed light on the rural elite of late-Roman Britain. The skeletal remains are thought to be unique as they ...

LONDON — Gardeners in Hampshire, a county in southeast England, were weeding their yard in April when they found 63 gold coins and one silver coin from King Henry VIII’s reign in the 16th century, ...

What should museums do with antiquities taken during colonial periods? It’s the question at the heart of a fracture between the Greek and British governments. For over 40 years, the Greek government ...

Archaeology of the early Church invariably entails a consideration of its works of art. However, the nature of such a church is almost impossible to objectify (indeed, is often defined by way of its ...

A NEW report, the "Survey and Policy of Field Research in the Archaeology of Great Britain. 1: The Prehistoric and early Historic Ages to the Seventh Century A.D.", has recently been published by the ...

COVENTRY, ENGLAND—A submerged archaeological site off the southern coast of England has yielded DNA from 8,000-year-old wheat. At the time, Mesolithic Britons were hunter-gatherers, but the DNA, ...

Lorna Richardson works for the Council for British Archaeology. This role receives funding from the Esmee Fairburn Foundation. George Osbourne has just announced that government departments have to ...

ARCHAEOLOGICAL studies, like many other things, have changed greatly since the War. They have now passed definitely and finally from the province of the antiquarian and the dilettante. In Great ...

Gertrude Bell with Sir Percy Cox and Ibn Saud, the first king of Saudi Arabia. Basra, April 1916. (Gertrude Bell Archive/Newcastle University) On a dark November day in 1929, the nascent British ...