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 ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

A hearth dated to 400,000 years ago has been unearthed near the village of Barnham in eastern England, CNN reports.

The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

In 2020, a farmer in England's Rutland county notified authorities about the possibility that there was a Roman villa located ...

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 ...

The circular arrangement of pits forms a boundary over two kilometers wide, enclosing more than three square kilometers around the Durrington Walls henge and Woodhenge monuments. Each pit measures up ...

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

The Melsonby Hoard has been nominated for a national award by one of the UK’s leading archaeological publications. The hoard, unearthed by experts in our Department of Archaeology, including our ...

Ancient England had more "bling" than historians have given it credit for. That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back ...

New research is revealing the remarkable story of one of Britain’s most enigmatic archaeological finds - a Roman gladiator helmet, discovered buried in a field in East Anglia. The artefact, which will ...

Thanks to the creative application of new technologies, the 2020s are quietly shaping up to be a golden age of archaeology. Analysis of ancient DNA has resolved long-debated questions about human ...