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Archaeologists have discovered vestiges of a nearly 900-year-old “nameless” castle on a remote island that may have been home to kings. On the Isle of Islay, Scotland, due north of Ireland, the former ...

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This discovery is more than a valuable find; it is a powerful story of stubborn persistence that paid off in the form of a ...

Archaeologists are hoping that a £1.2-million grant from the Leverhulme Trust will help to revive the study of ancient settlement patterns in the British Isles. The grant will support five years of ...

When the word “thing” first arrived on the British Isles, it was Old Norse and referred to something specific: a place where people gathered to discuss law and justice. One such Viking Age thing has ...

The study of islands in archaeology was originally biased toward the view that island societies were isolated, a stereotype that continues to be perpetuated in books and television. However, recent ...

The rainy climate of the British Isles might not seem like the best place to preserve human bodies through time, but a new scientific analysis of ancient bones reveals that Bronze Age Britain was a ...

Queen Victoria is known for wearing only black clothing during a mourning period for her beloved Albert that endured for no less than 40 years. She even went so far as to favor black jewelry made from ...

The countryside of the British Isles is dotted with hill forts, earthworks usually on top of hills that were used in the first millennium B.C. by Bronze and Iron Age Britons. While some of the hill ...