Ancient England had more "bling" than historians have given it credit for. That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back ...
Gertrude Bell with Sir Percy Cox and Ibn Saud, the first king of Saudi Arabia. Basra, April 1916. (Gertrude Bell Archive/Newcastle University) On a dark November day in 1929, the nascent British ...
The Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) has filed a freedom of information request to the British Museum after the London museum refused to grant the institute permission to make a 3-D scan of the ...
The British Museum released its annual tally of archaeological items found by the public — and the newest list is record-setting, the museum said this week. Overall, 53,490 archaeological discoveries ...
The discovery of a mysterious vault beneath a popular British tourist town has launched an archaeological investigation ...
Europe’s largest archaeological dig is starting and it’s set to involve 10,000 years of British history, at least 45,000 skeletons, more than 60 sites, and 150 miles – all along the UK’s new HS2 route ...
Today at the British Museum, Arts Minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, launched the Treasure Annual Report for 2019 and the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) Annual Report for 2020. These show that ...
A British tourist was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in an Iraqi prison for taking pottery shards from an archaeological site. The New York Times says James Fitton, 66, who is a retired geologist, ...