Ahead of construction on a new golf course in the Scottish Highlands, archeologists uncovered an extremely rare find: a prehistoric chariot wheel buried inside a ceremonial circle. But at first sight, ...

Digging into the sandy soil of northern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a rusty metal object unlike anything they’d seen before. The item turned out to be a “rare” ancient chariot wheel and a first ...

That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back about 2,000 years. Found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire ...

Unsuspecting metal detectorist Peter Heads stumbled upon a huge hoard of Iron Age items buried in two ditches in 2021. Professor Tom Moore, head of archaeology at Durham University, was one of the ...

A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago, researchers have said. Now known as the Melsonby Hoard ...

Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A metal detector hobbyist’s find has yielded one of the UK’s largest and most expansive troves of Iron Age artifacts. After ...

Archaeologists can finally publicly discuss the Melsonby Hoard, a collection of Iron Age artifacts that they have been excavating since a metal detectorist found it in 2021. By Ali Watkins ...

A massive Iron Age hoard with more than 800 pieces was discovered in northern England. Screengrab from Durham University's Facebook post In the fields of North Yorkshire, England, a man with a ...

A major archaeological discovery has been made in the Al Ain Region — a 3,000-year-old necropolis believed to be the first significant Iron Age cemetery ever found in the UAE. The discovery was ...