When metal detectorist Mariusz Stępień’s detector pinged in the Scottish Borders in 2020, he could never have guessed he was about to uncover one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds in ...

Archeologists examining the remains of a woman who died more than 4,250 years ago have discovered surprising new information, thanks to DNA analysis. The remains were discovered at Achavanich in ...

Both Geneticists and Archaeologists at the University of Huddersfield have joined together to further research regarding funerary remains coinciding with settlement and migration patterns in Bronze ...

In 1987, Scottish workers accidentally unearthed the burial of a Bronze Age woman during a road construction project. The stone, coffin-like tomb, called a cist, contained the woman's skeletal remains ...

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Centuries ago on the Black Isle of Scotland, an ancient community gathered their most precious items, wrapped them and buried them in the ground. It was a place for safekeeping, where the “highly ...