Where these sea raiders might have come from, and why they attacked the island of Als has long been a mystery.” ...

Teams have now re-examined the 2000-year-old skeleton and its DNA with new techniques. Analysis revealed she was around 18 to ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

Thomas Muir, who led the excavation said: “The discovery of a Bronze Age Barrow and an earlier Neolithic pit group was a ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

In a new Apostolic Letter commemorating the centenary of the foundation of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Christian archaeology does not simply look at the past, he wrote, but it also speaks to all people in the present day.

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

Evidence of feasting in the Hebrides 5,000 years ago and the discovery of a lost medieval settlement in the Borders have been ...

The wreck site of the boat, thought to have carried 80 passengers, was first discovered on the Danish island of Als and first excavated in the early 20th century. Archaeologists believe it likely ...

Traces of Stone Age feasts, a Roman battle in the hills of southern Scotland, and an amulet once thought to be imbued with magical powers have been revealed among the most tantalising archaeological ...