On the north bank of the River Wear, the vast Nissan plant dominates the landscape – a modern powerhouse of manufacturing ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what appears to be the largest Roman industrial complex ever discovered in northern Europe, hidden along the banks of the River Wear near Sunderland, England. The ...

Andrew Blackall argues why Britain's heritage should have greater public access, such as with Corton Longbarrow ...

Discovery of more than 800 whetstones, used to sharpen weapons, seen as one of the most significant finds in northern England for a century ...

Archaeologists have announced their discovery of a metal hoard that contained an extremely rare example of a Celtic battle ...

Gary Bankhead writes for The Northern Echo about leading the project that uncovered a major Roman manufacturing site on the banks of the River Wear.

New research shows England’s early population moved steadily from Mediterranean and Arctic regions, challenging ideas of ...

A massive archaeological discovery in County Wicklow suggests that ancient Irish people lived in dense urban prehistoric ...

Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

Archaeologists have discovered one of the largest settlements ever identified in Ireland's Baltinglass hillfort landscape.

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...