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

For the first time in almost 3000 years – a full size Bronze Age style sea-going boat has been launched in Britain. Slipping gracefully down a slipway today into Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall, the 15m-long vessel was then paddled by its 18 person crew for two 500m trial trips.

For centuries, it has been a crystal of legend locked in the verses of Norse myth with little or no evidence that it was ever real. Now it seems scientists at last have grounds for believing that the Viking “sunstone” used to navigate the seas did indeed exist.

Think animals of the frozen north and you think polar bear, musk ox, and walrus – but now you can also think camel.

Stretching the breadth of northern England, Hadrian's Wall is a majestic reminder of the ambition and might of the Roman Empire's conquest in Britain. Now, new archaeological evidence has suggested, contrary to previous belief, that the Romans far from co-existing peacefully with the locals, ejected them by force in order to build the 73-mile divide.

Discovery gives archaeologists an insight into the lives of people who lived on the rugged south western moorland  4,000 years ago

...and it could prove that he really didn’t commit the greatest crime in royal history