Archaeologists found 317 medieval and post-medieval skeletons at the site of a department store that is being remodeled into a university campus. This was hardly surprising, since even more ...

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Records of the prison date back to the late 1400s under King Henry VII, according to Smithsonian Magazine. A parliamentarian’s servant called it “a most vile prison” where their legs were shackled and ...

Centuries ago on the Black Isle of Scotland, an ancient community gathered their most precious items, wrapped them and buried ...

Culloden Archaeology Week is set to return, inviting history lovers from Highlands and beyond to discover what lies beneath the battlefield.

Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of ...

A new archaeological project is underway in Glasgow, which hopes to excavate ground used for burials since AD500 and shed ...

An "incredibly rare" item of medieval high fashion has been uncovered at a Highland castle, say archaeologists. The hair ...

According to historians East Lomond hill fort and nearby settlement made southernmost parts of the Pictish kingdom in what is ...

After a spinal injury forced him out of work, Simon Carroll picked up a trowel — and sparked a grassroots history movement ...

Along with fellow UK academic Prof Fay Couceiro from the University of ... an "archaeology of us." In recent years, archaeology has come to be defined more broadly, to not only study the deeper past ...