An ancient species has been named after Edward Scissorhands because of the shape of its claws. The 505 million-year-old 'Kootenichela deppi' - a no...
Crossrail workers have celebrated a full year of tunnelling by dedicating a birthday cake to one of their boring machines, Phyllis. The faithful ...
One of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids has been bulldozed by a construction company to make gravel for road fill. The 2,300 year-old Nohmul (or ...
Hundreds of mysterious yellow orbs have been found beneath Mexico’s Temple of the Feathered Serpent. The once-metallic spheres were discovered b...
It seems there has never been a better time to head outside and start digging up your local car park. Since the bones of Richard III were exhumed in Leicester last summer, archaeology has become more exciting than even two decades of Channel 4's Time Team could have dreamed.
Descendants of King Richard III have added their voices to the mini War of the Roses being fought over his final resting place, in a last ditch attemp...
The news that ancient remains, discovered under a Leicester car park, have been positively identified as those of King Richard III of England has led,...
King Richard III would have sounded like a Brummie, according to a language expert. Dr Philip Shaw, from the University of Leicester's School of En...
The face of King Richard III has been unveiled to the world after a battle-scarred skeleton found under a Leicester car park was confirmed as that of ...
Flushed with royal success after discovering the remains of King Richard III, archaeologists are to embark on their next 'great' mission: unearthing t...
Tests on a skeleton found under a car park in Leicester have confirmed that the remains belong to Richard III, archaeologists have said. The first ...
Richard III, brutally disturbed from peaceful rest under a Leicester car park, has emerged to a new world, where skewering now takes place on social n...
Tests on a skeleton found under a car park in Leicester have confirmed that the remains belong to Richard III, archaeologists have said. Scientists...
Archaeologists involved in the hunt for the remains of Richard III have released the first image of a battle-scarred skull which could be that of the ...
Experts hunting for dozens of Second World War Spitfires thought to have been buried in the Burmese jungle have found no planes at the sites they have...
Excavation of an ancient burial site in South Sonora, Mexico, has revealed a series of skeletons with intentionally deformed skulls. Of the 25 set...
A near complete skeleton of a woolly mammoth has been found near the French capital of Paris. The remains, which are believed to be between 200,00...
A second skeleton found by archaeologists searching for the remains of King Richard III could be that of a friary's female founder. The team carryi...
If the bones found beneath a Leicestershire car park belong to King Richard III they will be buried in the city's cathedral, the government has confir...
Bones: they're all the rage now, aren't they? We're all waiting on King Richard III, wondering if he can manage to be the bones beneath the municipal ...
An ancient Egyptian tomb of enormous archaeological importance has finally been reopened to the public after 10 years of renovation. The Serapeum -...
If remains unearthed in a car park are verified as those of King Richard III, they should be laid to rest at Leicester Cathedral, a Labour MP suggeste...
So, should we care that he may have been found? What more does it tell us, other than he maybe had a curved spine but wasn't a hunchback? It's a story with innate glamour - the last king to die in battle, famous from Shakespeare, the final act of the Wars of the Roses, and we DO love the monarchy these days - but it actually adds very little to our understanding of the late 15th Century... However, it could be a thing of tremendous potency; a reminder that historical and archaeological research does warrant all that effort and diligence.
He was born on 2 October 1452 in Northamptonshire. His early years were dominated by the Wars of the Roses, which his father, Richard Plantagenet, Duk...
An archaeological dig searching for the lost grave of Richard III has exceeded expectations during its first week, organisers have said. Experts fr...
