Tiny skeleton from Indonesia’s Flores island is unique ancient species, insist researchers
Divers stage emergency excavation of historic Thames shipwreck
Archaeologists fear climate change could destroy preserved remains of the London, which blew up off Essex coast in 1665
Five great shipwrecks that came back from the deep
Marine archaeologists think they have located the remains of Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, off the coast of Haiti. It joins an impressive list of other historic wrecks that have been found recently
Britain’s oldest settlement is Amesbury not Thatcham, say scientists
Archaeologists discover Wiltshire site is forerunner to Stonehenge and has been continually occupied since 8,820BC
Neanderthals were not less intelligent than modern humans, scientists find
Researchers say there is no evidence that modern humans’ cognitive superiority led to demise of Neanderthals
Ancient Rome’s tap water heavily contaminated with lead, researchers say
Supply became contaminated as it passed through giant network of lead pipes that distributed water around city, scientists believe
Archeologists’ findings may prove Rome a century older than thought
As Italian capital approaches 2,767th birthday, excavation reveals wall built long before official founding year of 753BC
Inside the mummies’ embalmed bodies – courtesy of a hospital CT scanner
The British Museum’s next big exhibition reveals secrets that experts have been able only to guess at – until now
Search for Inca ‘lost city’ in Amazon may endanger indigenous people
A six-week expedition starting in July will try to find Paititi in the Megantoni National Sanctuary in south-east Peru
Campaign for Richard III’s reburial in York heard by high court
Descendants argue that York is fitting resting place for monarch, whose remains were found beneath a Leicester carpark