Preparatory work for a high-speed rail project in Britain has resulted in some interesting archaeological…

A 1,700-year-old board game, including rare elongated dice, dating back to the Roman Iron Age has been unearthed in…

Archaeologists in central Norway have uncovered evidence of a heavily traveled mountain passageway that was used…

A chemical analysis of pottery feeding vessels from the Bronze and Iron Ages suggests prehistoric European babies…

A one-of-a-kind bark shield dating back to the Iron Age has been unearthed in England. Archaeologists have never…

Construction work in Oxfordshire, England has resulted in the discovery of 26 skeletons dating back to the Iron Age.…

He was somewhere between the age of 17 and 25 when he died, apparently of natural causes. But for reasons that are…

Archaeologists working at the Pocklington burial site in Yorkshire have discovered the 2,500-year-old skeletal…

Some 3,000 "hill forts" or "defended enclosures" are scattered across Britain. The elevated land provided a…

Archaeologists working at the UCL Petrie Museum have shown that ancient Egyptians made jewelry from chunks of…

About 3,000 years ago during the Iron Age, the Assyrians were a major power in the Middle East and North Africa.…

Great news for all you hopeful amateur metal detectorists: Two men, who'd been searching the same field for nearly…

It turns out Europe 2,600 years ago was pretty much exactly like one big college frat, with social elites vying…

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 1,000-year-old Viking in Scotland, along with his boat, ax, sword and…

The sword is the perennial symbol of empires, knighthood, chivalry and fantasy. But it's also one of the world's…

In its simplest terms, European prehistory can be divided into three parts: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the…