New archaeological research is revealing that, more than a thousand years before Britain became part of the Roman Empire, it was part of an extraordinary Mediterranean-based trading network.

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first ...

After almost six decades of cutting-edge research — and having survived hurricanes and earthquakes — the world's most famous radio telescope is to be decommissioned. Part of its legacy is a little ...