The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

Board games were also popular in the Roman Empire and boards and playing pieces have been found in several places in Slovakia ...

A new analysis of mineral grains has refuted the "glacial transport theory" that suggests Stonehenge's bluestones and Altar ...

Archaeologists in England recently discovered the sixth- and seventh-century graves, which also contained numerous weapons ...

The new Open Lab will give people the chance to see hundreds of artefacts found during eight years of excavation at Auckland Palace, in County Durham. Experts from our Department of Archaeology and ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

New research has delivered the strongest scientific evidence yet that people – not glaciers – transported Stonehenge’s famous ...

Suffolk has been at the forefront of a record-breaking year for archaeological discoveries, as new figures reveal an ...

New archaeological finds found in East Yorkshire, led by the University of York, are shedding light on life in England before the Norman Conquest.

Grave 109 at Oakington is a rare triple burial, holding the remains of a female infant, a young woman (left) and an older woman (center). Duncan Sayer The soldiers arrived in “three ships of war, with ...

Yorkshire Dales National Park is home to some of the country's most recognizable landscapes and film sites.

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...