Just as waterfront mansions are status symbols for today's rich and famous, ancient artificial islands in the British Isles known as crannogs may have been used by elites to display their power and ...

As ancient humans left Africa, they encountered many harsh environments including the Sahara and the high Arctic, but one of ...

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Archaeologists have discovered vestiges of a nearly 900-year-old “nameless” castle on a remote island that may have been home to kings. On the Isle of Islay, Scotland, due north of Ireland, the former ...

Archaeologists are hoping that a £1.2-million grant from the Leverhulme Trust will help to revive the study of ancient settlement patterns in the British Isles. The grant will support five years of ...

The Caithness Broch Project's tower is proposed for a site near Latheron, south of Wick and would be the first to be ...

OXFORD, ENGLAND—Researchers have developed a map of the United Kingdom based upon genetic variation in the late 1800s, when people were less likely than today to migrate far from the region of their ...

When the word “thing” first arrived on the British Isles, it was Old Norse and referred to something specific: a place where people gathered to discuss law and justice. One such Viking Age thing has ...

The study of islands in archaeology was originally biased toward the view that island societies were isolated, a stereotype that continues to be perpetuated in books and television. However, recent ...

The rainy climate of the British Isles might not seem like the best place to preserve human bodies through time, but a new scientific analysis of ancient bones reveals that Bronze Age Britain was a ...

The countryside of the British Isles is dotted with hill forts, earthworks usually on top of hills that were used in the first millennium B.C. by Bronze and Iron Age Britons. While some of the hill ...

A forgotten medieval kingdom and royal castle were found during a 10-year archaeological project on a Scottish island. After nearly 30 years of analysis, The Archaeology of Finlaggan, Islay has ...