Viking treasure hoard found in England
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One of the biggest Viking treasures ever found has been discovered on an English farm by a father-son team of treasure hunters, the British Museum announced Thursday.
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A 10th century stone carving used for many years as a headstone to mark the grave of a British couple's cat sold for 175,000 pounds (250,000 euros, 330,000 dollars) at auction.
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WASHINGTON --Â A village of small houses that may have sheltered the builders of the mysterious Stonehenge - or people attending festivals there - has been found by archaeologists studying the stone circle in England.
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A stone marking a pet cat&#39;s grave fetched more than Â£200,000 at Sotheby&#39;s yesterday after experts said it was a 1,100-year-old Anglo-Saxon carving.
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A precious Viking arm ring is handed to a museum after it was found among a late father's belongings.
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Fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight unearth the bones of the biggest dinosaur ever found in the UK.
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Tens of thousands of artefacts salvaged from a sunken ship off Java's coast in Indonesia are to be auctioned.
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French police discover two big arms caches thought to belong to the Basque separatists Eta.
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Underwater archaeologists have found another cannon from the wreckage of what they believe was the flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard.
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A prehistoric neck bone found 12 years ago by amateur fossil hunters in Britain belongs to the biggest dinosaur ever discovered in the UK and possibly Europe, a report published in the Cretaceous Research Journal said today.
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Archaeologists say they have excavated an "extremely important" burial site of six Viking men and women, complete with swords, spears, jewellery, fire-making materials and riding gear.
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A detailed survey of ancient cave carvings at a site first discovered last year in Nottinghamshire, England, reveals the etchings may be some of most elaborate Ice Age art ever found.
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Fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight have unearthed bones belonging to the biggest dinosaur ever found in the UK.
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Nine art objects, including a piece dating from more than 1,000 BC, have been stolen from a ceramics gallery at the Victoria and Albert museum in London, the museum said.
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London - A 10th century stone carving used for many years as a headstone to mark the grave of a British couple&#39;s cat sold for Â£175 000 (about R2-million) at auction on Friday.
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A stolen collection of about 100 artifacts dating back more than 7,000 years Â including what appear to be very early human portraits Â were displayed in Greece Tuesday, for the first time since being smuggled to Germany.
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A Viking ship has set sail for Denmark in an attempt to recreate voyages undertaken by early Norsemen.