The Ryedale Hoard, a group of four stunning bronze objects, has become the focus of a captivating exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum. Unearthed near Ryedale, North Yorkshire, …
In July 2014, an avocational surface collector chanced across a partially exposed Chinese votive sword behind roots in an eroded bank of a small stream …
The recent discovery of a 5,000-year-old chalk drum in the UK has transformed our understanding of prehistoric Britain . Unearthed during an excavation near Burton Agnes in East Yorkshire, …
Her name is Yuka: an ancient woolly mammoth that last lived some 28,000 years ago, before becoming mummified in the frozen permafrost wastelands of northern Siberia. But …
The enormous prehistoric treasures Mother Nature continues to produce, this time in the form of a gigantic thigh bone, once belonging to a massive plant-munching sauropod …
This fine if rather intimidating woolly rhino can be found at Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, UK. The new rhino discovered is a juvenile, probably only …
One of the most remarkable archaeological finds has been the discovery of a massive Roman coin collection in a Swiss vineyard. A farmer unearthed the …
Hundreds of elite Anglo-Saxon women were buried with mysterious ivory rings. Now, researchers know the ivory came from elephants living about 4,000 miles away from …
An unknown species of human apparently mastered obsidian, something it had been thought only occurred in the Stone Age. Ateam of researchers affiliated with several …
