With their potent blend of wild looks and mystery, Britain’s ancient sites have an enduring magnetism — and there are far more of them than you might imagine.

Ancient bones from an Irish 'god-king' are neither god nor king, and are not evidence of a royal family, a new study suggests ...

Archaeologists from University College Dublin scoured the annals of history and found no evidence kings, or any type of royal ...

ACROSS England’s rolling hills, moors, and wooded valleys, ancient stories lie hidden beneath the soil. The traces of ...

The symbols were laid down in the late Stone Age, or Neolithic Age. They predate the earliest recorded writings from Mesopotamia - in what is now Iraq - by more than 2,000 years. The archaeologists ...

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilisation – believed to be the oldest in the world. Ongoing investigations by Turkish, British and other archaeologists in ...

More Neolithic “rock art” has been discovered at the Ness—in excess of 1,200 examples, of which the Butterfly Stone is the best known—than in the rest of Britain put together.

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern Europe, according to a new study.

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Virulent Plague Might Have Obliterated Stone-Age Scandinavia.