The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it ...

After 1,400 years lying undisturbed beneath British farmland, an ancient Anglo-Saxon warrior had a rude awakening in 2018 when a group of amateur metal detectorists stumbled across his burial site and ...

There is an art to rivalry. Mastering its rules has, since ancient times, shaped cultural history over millennia.

British Museum Quarterly is a scholarly journal published by the British Museum from 1926-1973. It is a journal dealing with recent British Museum acquisitions and research concerning the Museum's ...

(CNN) — Thousands of ancient butchered human bones found in a deep shaft in southwest England have pointed archaeologists to a grim chapter of British prehistory that occurred during the Early Bronze ...

The toppled head of Augustus spent centuries buried underneath the door to an invading force's victory shrine Trustees of the British Museum "Pussy Hat," 2017 Trustees of the British Museum James ...

The Cope Collection of Roman and British coins includes rare and significant examples that bear witness to some of the most significant moments in British history. In May, and again in October, the ...

The Second Plague Pandemic of the mid-14th century, also known as the Black Death, killed 30-60 percent of the European population and profoundly changed the course of European history. New research ...