The spectacular hoard was unearthed near Silverdale, North Lancashire, by metal-detectorist Darren Webster in 2011.…
The coin is a Henry VII ‘half groat’, believed to have been minted in Canterbury, UK.…
Weapons, pottery, charred wooden beams, and dozens of coins dating to the late 2nd century BC were also unearthed.…
This is the first molecular evidence of beer production in Iron Age Europe.…
Although the Chimú are known to have practised human sacrifice, it is currently not possible to say whether this is the case here.…
Radiocarbon dating has indicated that the skull is c.220 years old, making it possibly the earliest example currently known from the region…
The discovery grants us a glimpse of the people who were behind the day-to-day running of the villa…
Excavations in Contrebandiers Cave from 2007 to 2010 found 62 bone tools used for leather and fur manufacture in Middle Stone Age layers.…
This discovery shows that the strategy of concealing the bodies of murder victims inside existing tombs has been in use for centuries.…
No other sailors from HMAS Sydney were ever recovered, even after the ship’s wreckage was located in 2008.…
They will now form part of the Imperial War Museum's First World War Collections.…
The Battle of Pinkie was the last large-scale pitched battle between Scotland and England before the 1603 Union of Crowns.…
Inlaid with silver and brass and buried under 20 inches of soil, it was possibly placed as an offering to the gods.…
A member of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, Shames was involved in some of the most important battles of the Second World War.…
Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen star in this retelling of the 1943 Allied plan to keep the invasion of Sicily a secret…
The Imperial War Museum has announced its first ever all-day live event, consisting of talks from conflict veterans, museum curators, and leading authors in the field of military history.…
The find has been dubbed the ‘biggest mammoth discovery for a generation’…
It is 70m from where archaeological remains thought to represent a 1st-century AD temple were discovered…
The results will be shared in spring, in a new episode of Time Team that will air on the ‘Time Team Official’ YouTube Channel.…
The fort sits on a sand dune and is thought to have been occupied as early as the 6th century AD…