Culloden was also the last pitched, large-scale battle fought on British soil, cementing its significance in modern British history.

The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

The unearthing had "profound effects on human evolution" according to the groundbreaking study.

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

To compile the ranking, British evolutionary anthropologist Mark Dyble used archaeological and ethnographic data from more than 100 human populations ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.