As ancient humans left Africa, they encountered many harsh environments including the Sahara and the high Arctic, but one of ...

Just as waterfront mansions are status symbols for today's rich and famous, ancient artificial islands in the British Isles known as crannogs may have been used by elites to display their power and ...

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — An archaeology student unearthed seven “spectacular” Viking-era curled silver arm rings earlier this year north of Denmark's second-largest city, a Danish museum said on Monday, ...

Archaeologists believe they may have unearthed an "incredibly rare" stone carving of the face of a person who lived in Fife more than 1,000 years ago. University of Aberdeen student Jodie Allan made ...

Archaeologists are hoping that a £1.2-million grant from the Leverhulme Trust will help to revive the study of ancient settlement patterns in the British Isles. The grant will support five years of ...

OXFORD, ENGLAND—Researchers have developed a map of the United Kingdom based upon genetic variation in the late 1800s, when people were less likely than today to migrate far from the region of their ...

Queen Victoria is known for wearing only black clothing during a mourning period for her beloved Albert that endured for no less than 40 years. She even went so far as to favor black jewelry made from ...

When the word “thing” first arrived on the British Isles, it was Old Norse and referred to something specific: a place where people gathered to discuss law and justice. One such Viking Age thing has ...

The countryside of the British Isles is dotted with hill forts, earthworks usually on top of hills that were used in the first millennium B.C. by Bronze and Iron Age Britons. While some of the hill ...

The study of islands in archaeology was originally biased toward the view that island societies were isolated, a stereotype that continues to be perpetuated in books and television. However, recent ...

A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The ...