Getting close to one of the big icons of Western civilization – the Acropolis, the Palace of Versailles, the Colosseum – can ...

November 1993, STOCKHOLM - Eight works by Pablo Picasso and French cubist Georges Braque, valued at some $60 million, were ...

From bridging remote regions to harnessing natural resources, these feats of engineering reflect Scotland’s rich heritage, ...

Museum staff conserving a Bronze Age hoard have described the “magical” moment the “silvery surface” of its contents emerged ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of the 3,000-year-old Peebles Hoard, revealing a previously unknown Bronze Age ...

The museum is conserving the Hoard, a 3,000-year-old collection of over 500 unique Bronze Age objects with no known parallels ...

The discovery, dating from between 1,000BC and 800BC, had lain undisturbed for 3,000 years before being found by a metal ...

Sir Mark Jones is back from leave and has addressed staff at HES during a deeply troubled time at the organisation.

More than 450 years ago, its contents were said to implicate Mary Queen of Scots in the conspiracy to murder her second ...

The bronze figurehead of a goddess is one of the highlights of a new exhibition featuring Sudan's ancient Kingdom of Kush, ...

April 1991, AMSTERDAM - In what was then billed as the world’s biggest art robbery, 20 paintings, estimated to be worth $500 ...

A fossil discovered in Scotland has revealed a new species and family of Jurassic reptile linked to the origins of lizards ...