A chalk quarry in Kent once revealed an Iron Age burial ground, only for its finds to vanish after the 1955 cemetery ...

Among the macabre discoveries was a child’s skull planted between the floors, which people walked over for years.

In 1955, workers in a chalk quarry in Highsted, near Sittingbourne, were working when a human skull came tumbling down the ...

Peter Trebsche, the study’s first author and an archaeologist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, told Gizmodo that this was the “largest known mass find of iron bars” in Europe. It’s ...

Human bones were recovered from 192 people left in Iron and Viking Age homes, including a child's skull with a sword cut set ...

Analysis of cauldrons nearly two and a half millennia-old has allowed archaeologists to create a near-perfect replica, providing insight into the skills of Iron Age metalworkers in the process. A ...

Iron was central to life in Europe in the second and third century bc, but the scale of its production and trade has been ...

A Danube shipwreck may have unintentionally rewritten the outcome of a 3rd-century B.C.E. Iron Age war.

Eleven of 26 Iron Age skulls from Matelica, Italy, show flat head syndrome, the earliest known cases in Italy, long before ...

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