For several years, Cambridge University’s archaeology department has partnered with the local charity Cambridge Past, Present ...

According to a statement released by the Hull City Council, a cast iron cannon was unearthed in the city’s Queen’s Gardens. A team of local contractors had been excavating a space for a stormwater ...

GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that an excavation in western England at the site of Cowfield Farm has uncovered a medieval moat and bridge. Traces of wood from the bridge have been dated to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A typical New England stone wall in Hebron, Conn. Robert M. Thorson, CC BY-ND The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are ...

Archaeology students from the University of Cambridge have uncovered a Viking-era mass grave at Wandlebury Country Park in Cambridgeshire, with the remains of at least 10 individuals packed into a ...

A child buried with a shield and spear was discovered during excavations of a medieval cemetery in Kent, southeast England, by Prof. Duncan Sayer and archaeologist Andrew Richardson. The child, ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of what they believe was the 18th century home of "King Pompey"—an enslaved African who later won his freedom—in New England. Researchers identified the ...

In this talk based on her recent book, The Shock of Colonialism in New England: Fragments from a Frontier, archaeologist Dr. Meghan C. L. Howey shares her research on the seventeenth-century colonial ...