There has been a significant rise in the number of valuable artefacts found by amateur treasure hunters in Britain.

The British Museum says the number of finds containing gold and silver rose by 12.6% to 749 in the…

Reducing herds with infected fallow deer ‘may play a role in lowering risks to cattle’, say government scientific advisers.

Wild deer herds with high levels of TB are likely to be culled more rigorously to minimise the risk of cattle…

Lasting some 11 centuries from the foundation of the city of Constantinople, today’s Istanbul, on the site of the Greek city of Byzantium by the Roman emperor Constantine in 330 CE to its final defeat at the hands of the…

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Nothing is as central to the way the British view themselves as the telling and retelling of their gallant fight against the Nazis. Perhaps the colossal figure of Winston Churchill is taken for granted now, his boozy final years remembered…

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Germany declined to comment on Saturday on reports that three Germans arrested on suspicion of throwing explosives at an EU office in Kosovo were intelligence officers.

The explosive charge was thrown on Nov. 14 at the International Civilian Office (ICO),…

Cloaked by time’s leafy shroud, the prehistoric settlement of Gaer Fawr lies all but invisible beneath a forest in the lush Welsh countryside. Commanded by warrior chiefs who loomed over the everyday lives of their people, the massive Iron Age…

Sofia – Archaeologists are working on a Thracian bronze chariot, which they unearthed near the village of Karanovo in southeastern Bulgaria. More than 10,000 Thracian burial mounds are scattered across central and southeastern Bulgaria, which is considered to have been…

The marble head of a statue of a Roman emperor was delivered in the National History Museum today from “Sofia Airport – Customs”. The head, most probably representing Octavian August, was found in a package sent from Haskovo to Western…

A Spartan princesss Cynisca broke the mould by winning a four horse chariot race in 396 BCE. English classicist, Paul Cartledge, introduces us to Cynisca of Sparta and offers us an insight to why she can be considered the first…

17 November 2008 | Macedonian archaeologists found over 100 new artefacts, dating to the early Roman period, at the Gabrevci site in the central part of the country.

130 ceramic vessels and deformed bronze objects were discovered during…

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered what could be the remains of an ancient Iron Age hill fort in the Black Country.

The exciting find was made during a dig on behalf of the Black Country Housing Group and a group of eager…

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The Ring of Brodgar, the third largest standing stone circle in Britain and the Ness of Brodgar, its accompanying settlement site, have been the focus of an investigation funded by Historic Scotland and Orkney Island Council under the direction of…

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific…

PARIS – A five-year quest to locate the tomb of d’Artagnan — the inspiration for Alexandre Dumas’s novel The Three Musketeers — has led to a small Dutch church where new research suggests the swashbuckling hero is buried.

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Archaeological excavations have continued this summer within ‘The Heart of Neolithic Orkney’ World Heritage Site.

The Ring of Brodgar, the third largest standing stone circle in Britain and the Ness of Brodgar, its accompanying settlement site, have been the focus…

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