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When the HS2 railway was first announced, a lot of people were understandably thrilled. The railway is supposed to link Britain’s two largest cities, London and Birmingham, via a new, high-speed ...
A 12-year-old boy walking his dog with his mom in Pagham, England, picked up a rare Roman golden cuff bracelet. The bracelet ...
A new archaeological project is underway in Glasgow, which hopes to excavate ground used for burials since AD500 and shed ...
A Newcastle University student from Florida discovered medieval gold within 90 minutes of her first archaeological dig. The excavation site in Northumberland was chosen after a metal detectorist found ...
Just an hour and a half into her first ever excavation, an American archaeology student has struck gold in Britain. Dating back to the ninth century, the small, ornate artifact she unearthed may have ...
An archaeology student from Florida discovered a ninth-century golden artifact during her first excavation in Redesdale, Northumberland, near an ancient Roman road.
A gold coin minted by a little-known ruler in ancient Britain — an Iron Age man who said he was as "mighty" as a god — has been found by a metal detectorist and auctioned off in England. The rare coin ...
Bronze Age Britons gathered for huge "food festivals" - with pork, beef and lamb on the menu, reveals new research.
An archaeological dig in northern England shows iron and lead processing continued and even increased after the departure of ...
What should museums do with antiquities taken during colonial periods? It’s the question at the heart of a fracture between the Greek and British governments. For over 40 years, the Greek government ...
The harmful and racist foundations of craniometry have now been discredited, reports Elise Smith, but it had Victorian scientists captivated ...