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 ...

Gertrude Bell with Sir Percy Cox and Ibn Saud, the first king of Saudi Arabia. Basra, April 1916. (Gertrude Bell Archive/Newcastle University) On a dark November day in 1929, the nascent British ...

The Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) has filed a freedom of information request to the British Museum after the London museum refused to grant the institute permission to make a 3-D scan of the ...

The British Museum released its annual tally of archaeological items found by the public — and the newest list is record-setting, the museum said this week. Overall, 53,490 archaeological discoveries ...

George Osbourne has just announced that government departments have to find £3 billion in savings over the next year. The Department of Communities and Local Government will have a reduction of £230 ...

A new archaeology gallery at the Maidstone Museum has been opened by comedian and actor Hugh Dennis. Mr Dennis said he had heard about the gallery through friends at the Kent Archaeological Society ...

Finds reported to England’s Portable Antiquities Scheme include medieval bone rosary bead and 3,000-year-old gold dress fastener Caroline Nunneley was mudlarking along the shore of the Thames in ...