An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton ...

Sahura sits amongst the Abusir complex, a popular burial site near the Nile River for pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty of ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

Once lost, these seven cities were found after years of mystery. Their rediscovery tells us more about our past and the civilisations that thrived centuries ago.

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

In Senon, north-eastern France, a homeowner’s renovation plans were interrupted when diggers unearthed the remains of a Gallo ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

In 2025, UCL scientists made breakthroughs in Huntington’s disease, cancer and sight loss, revealed the Sun’s south pole and ...