National Museums Liverpool works with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, which is a voluntary recording scheme for ...

Many of us know Queen Elizabeth II’s profile better than the back of our own hands. After all, her image has stared back at ...

The Chinchorro culture experienced tragically high rates of infant mortality, possibly due to arsenic poisoning.

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” ...

In a dimly lit office in a corner of the French National Institute for Art History, Sudanese archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo ...

I t’s time to say hello to an old friend again. The first near-Earth asteroid ever discovered by humans, 433 Eros, will have a close fly-by of Earth this weekend, and it should stay visible for a few ...

Beneath the UK’s Parliament, a shocking discovery is rewriting everything we thought we knew about London’s past. From ...

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 ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...

Archaeologists are to resume digging at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney after 3D radar technology discovered an "extraordinary" ...

The 12,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey is often called the “zero point of history”, said The Archaeologist. But ...