The Independent

Greg Brooks holds up a photograph of the SS Port Nicholson, which he says contains treasure

Let battle commence: US diver hopes to find £2bn treasure on British war wreck

03 February 2012 12:00 AM

Possible hoard of platinum, diamonds and gold may be biggest ever – but who would keep it?

Archaeologists discover tomb of female singer in Valley of the Kings

16 January 2012 02:22 AM

Archaeologists from Egypt and Switzerland have unearthed the 1,100-year-old tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings.

1,000-piece puzzle may unlock secrets to the Roman conquest of Britain

11 January 2012 12:00 AM

The helmet could have been captured as a war trophy or a diplomatic gift from a Roman officer

Craig Rhos-y-Felin, north Pembrokeshire: the newly discovered original source of some of the early stones used or installed at and around Stonehenge in the Neolithic

Scientists discover source of rock used in Stonehenge's first circle

18 December 2011 05:05 PM

Discovery reignites debate over transportation of smaller standing stones

3,400 year-old Pharaoh statue found

02 December 2011 12:00 AM

Archaeologists have unearthed a large statue of Amenhotep III, who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago and was the grandfather of Tutankhamun.

Discoveries suggest the veneration of the sun at Stonehenge was more important than thought

Secret history of Stonehenge revealed

26 November 2011 12:00 AM

Ancient site may have been place of worship 500 years before the first stone was erected

Ancient Greek city digitally recreated

07 October 2011 06:57 PM

A submerged ancient Greek city, from the heroic era portrayed in Homer’s Iliad, is being ‘raised’ from the bottom of the Aegean.

Ancestors' lifestyle change probed by archaeologists

23 September 2011 04:26 PM

Archaeologists are investigating islands around Britain to find out why our ancestors gave up being hunter-gatherers 6,000 years ago and turned to farming.

Samurai warriors examined by Japanese and British scientists

17 September 2011 12:00 AM

Gruesome evidence of medieval Japanese Samurai warriors being decapitated, so that their heads could be taken as trophies by their enemies, is being examined by Japanese and British scientists.

Sapphire ring 'belonged to Anglo-Saxon or Viking royalty'

29 July 2011 11:15 AM

A unique gold and sapphire finger ring, found by a metal detectorist and just purchased by the Yorkshire Museum, almost certainly belonged to Anglo-Saxon or Viking royalty, very senior clergy or a leading member of the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy, say historians.

Copperopolis to rise again

22 July 2011 12:00 AM

One of the Industrial Revolution’s least known, yet most important, monuments is to rise again.

A computer dating revolution (of the archaeological kind)

06 June 2011 12:00 AM

Innovations in programming are changing archaeologists’ perception of how settled life and early agriculture spread through Britain, David Keys, Archaeology Correspondent, reports.

Skeletons tell tales of brutal wars from beyond the castle's crypt

27 May 2011 12:00 AM

One set of remains had suffered 100 fractures and researchers found that the others had all died from blunt injuries

Can a tomb bring Egyptian tourism back to life?

26 May 2011 12:00 AM

In Cairo, Patrick Cockburn sees seven archaeological sites opened to tempt back visitors who have stayed away since the Arab Spring

Prehistoric war unearthed in Peak District

18 April 2011 05:39 PM

Evidence for a hitherto totally unknown prehistoric war has been discovered in northern England. Archaeologists excavating the remains of a large fortified Iron Age settlement at Fin Cop in the Peak District have so far found the skeletons of nine victims of what they believe was a massacre which took place around 2400 years ago.