Culloden was also the last pitched, large-scale battle fought on British soil, cementing its significance in modern British history.

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

A hearth dated to 400,000 years ago has been unearthed near the village of Barnham in eastern England, CNN reports.

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including ...

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 ...

A Roman mosaic found in Britain has revealed a version of the Trojan War that was previously lost to history. According to ...

Archaeology is the study of the artefacts and other physical evidence left by past societies of humans and closely related species. It uses scientific analysis of field samples to inform historical ...