A team of archaeologists have discovered a "high status" Bronze Age burial site in a quarry in the Yorkshire Dales. During investigations ahead of an expansion of Breedon's Leyburn Quarry, researchers ...

Archaeologists working at Breedon’s Leyburn Quarry have uncovered a series of rare Bronze Age finds, including human cremation burials and a finely crafted stone axe hammer. The five-week excavation ...

An enormous, ancient handaxe, thought to be at least 300,000 years old, has been discovered in Kent in Southeast England during excavations ahead of the construction of a new school. Researchers from ...

When the National Museum of Ireland received a parcel containing two ancient axe heads in June, its researchers were stumped. Besides an unsigned note from an anonymous sender, the artifacts came with ...

Researchers from University College London's Institute of Archaeology have uncovered a cache of 800 stone artefacts dating to more than 300,000 years ago. The find includes one of the largest ...

An incredibly rare Bronze Age artifact has been discovered by a metal detectorist in the United Kingdom. The gold "dress fastener," found by Nottinghamshire man Jonathan Needham while searching near ...

Where Bronze Age civilizations got large amounts of tin, a scarce metal, to mix with copper into the era’s namesake gold-colored metal has long puzzled archaeologists. A big part of the answer lies in ...

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