Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Victoria was the railway queen: the first British monarch to board a train when she departed Slough for Paddington in 1842.

Archaeological work in the forests has identified ten settlements from the time, which may explain the monumentality of ...

When people think of ancient burials in North Africa, they often picture Egypt's pyramids and monuments. But new discoveries show that north-western Africa also has a deep and fascinating prehistoric ...

The Orkney Islands are rich in prehistoric sites, and it was thought, at first, that the slab could be the capstone of a type of Bronze Age burial known ... and every map is a poem: Bay of Skaill ...

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 ...

The remains of a Late Bronze Age settlement "of considerable significance" were uncovered during the development of a new road, archaeologists said. A cremation cemetery with 18 burials ...

Researchers compared direct open water journeys (110 km) and “coast-hugging” (700 km) voyages between Jutland and southwest Norway in the Early Nordic Bronze Age. These two areas are known to ...

Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely rethink one of the most complex human stories: the development of the world ...