In the United Kingdom, the army enjoys the prestige acquired during the two world wars, but it is concerned about the  threat ...

Another was a Roman geographer called Ptolemy who wrote a description of Britain, listing the names of the many British tribes. The Vacomagi lived in and around the Cairngorns. Other unknown ...

Crikey this is in Gillingham in Kent where I grew up. Nice to see a bit of ancient British history discovered there. The 15-year research project was triggered following excavations in 2005 and ...

Until the first century BC, British pots were hand-made by coil- or slab-shaping. Clay was mixed with 'temper' such as sand or crushed pottery, which reduced shrinkage and cracking on drying.

London Museum In the 1950s, when the temple in central London was first unearthed, it garnered widespread attention, with curious onlookers lining up for blocks to see the ancient history beneath ...

The tomb of King Thutmose II has been found, but what does this achievement mean? Is it an archaeological breakthrough of ...

of the ancient British roots of the language. This interest in Welsh occurred at a time when society was changing rapidly in the face of new, large scale industry. Some scholars applied their ...

the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and some 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...