Workers digging for a new road near Perth, Scotland, uncovered a 2,500-year-old underground stone chamber that ancient people ...

The archaeologists that found the stone-paved chamber, located inside a hilltop fort in Scotland, still aren’t sure exactly what its purpose was.

INVERNESS, SCOTLAND—BBC News reports that traces of postholes from 16 prehistoric roundhouses and a palisade were uncovered during an investigation conducted ahead of construction of a new prison in ...

Read the issue » The Stones of Stenness are part of one of Europe’s richest archeological landscapes—the legacy of a ...

The carved head is made of red sandstone. University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute An intricately carved head made of red sandstone has been found on one of Scotland’s Orkney ...

The Scotsman reports that DNA evidence of the Black Death has been found in the teeth of a teenaged boy whose skeletal remains were unearthed at St. Giles’ Cathedral in 1981. More than 100 burials ...

The official history, consolidated for decades in archaeology manuals, maintained that the Picts, those enigmatic peoples of northern Britain whose intricate symbols endure but whose voice has fallen ...

The Picts, the descendants of Iron Age tribes, are known for decorating standing stones with intricate carvings and constructing impressive hillforts. They ruled northern and eastern Scotland for ...

Gordon Stirling Maxwell, archaeologist and aerial photographer. Born: 21 March 1938 in Edinburgh. Died: 19 November 2024, aged 86 Gordon Maxwell was a pioneer in the development of aerial ...