Analysis of mummy's hair by UK team shows teenage girl was given coca and alcohol before ritualistic death

Humans had a sophisticated calendrical system thousands of years earlier than previously thought, according to new research.

Wreck of warplane brought to surface after 73 years on seabed

Ancient Britons made hundreds of thousands of dugout canoes, archaeologists now believe.

Researchers have revealed the remains of King Richard III, which were discovered under a city car park, were found in a hastily dug, untidy grave.

The images are thought to have been created by three groups of hunters

Honduras's ancient metropolis ‘found’ using revolutionary 3D mapping technique

The United States has returned a stolen, 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus skeleton to Mongolia.

Oxford historian gathers evidence that proves ancient marvel was located 300 miles away

Archaeologists excavating beneath Mexico’s Temple of the Feathered Serpent have discovered hundreds of mysterious yellow orbs.

Archaeologists, excavating near the Royal Borough, have discovered the 4400 year old skeleton of an upper class woman

The search is on for warrior queen’s bones, once thought to lie beneath a McDonald’s

Centuries of debate over where King Alfred the Great is buried could soon be over after archaeologists exhumed bones from an unmarked grave this morning.

A youngster wowed his teachers when it emerged the piece of shale he brought with him to a show-and-tell was in fact a 300 million-year-old fossil.

Thirteen skeletons, lying in two neat rows 2.4m beneath a road in Farringdon have been unearthed by excavations for London's Crossrail project