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Archaeologists working in Derbyshire have this month reported the discovery of a mass grave on an Iron Age hill fort....
It looks like diggers have found what could be one of the largest archaeological sites in England. And it’s been hidden...
Researchers have found evidence to suggest that life evolved on land much earlier than previously thought...
Killer dinosaurs may have hunted mainly under cover of darkness.
The bones of people who died up to a hundred years ago are being used in the development of new treatments for chronic...
The problem of how we might feed the earth’s population in the future has come under further scrutiny this week with...
As any parents, aunties or uncles know full well, kids get much more tired out simply walking around than adults do,...
Archaeologists working a several sites across Europe have found evidence that our stone age ancestors were more partial...
Stone-tipped arrows thought to be 64,000 years old have been found in the Sibundu Cave in South Africa. Lyn Wadley...
The wreck of a 19th Century British ship has been found in the frigid waters of northern Canada.
Britain's oldest house was unearthed in Yorkshire. Identified by radiocarbing dating to be from 8,500BC, it is 500...
Doomsday book of 1066 can be seen online at www.pase.ac.uk
The earliest evidence of tool-use by human ancestors has been found in Ethiopia.
Duncan Howitt-Marshall and Diana O'Carroll discuss the repatriation and reburial of the head of Yagan, the...
Diana O'Carroll and Duncan Howitt Marshall discuss the discovery of tortoise bones at Stafford Castle - the...
The head of an aboriginal warrior has been re-burried after it was taken from its homeland 177 years ago.
The leg bone of a tortoise has been found at Stafford castle in Staffordshire, dating to the late 19th Century.
Research has shown that one of the deadliest strains of malaria travelled with early humans as they left Africa and...
New archaeological evidence suggests human ancestors gave up their vegetarian diet and began feasting on land and...
This week has seen the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, which helps to answer some puzzles - did humans and...
A new species of early human has been described this week – Australopithecus sediba. And it looks like it’s a key...
This week archaeologists have described the discovery of some of the earliest evidence for advanced human thought....
Surprising as it sounds, scientists at the University of Copenhagen have decoded the genome sequence of an ancient...