Tiny skeleton from Indonesia’s Flores island is unique ancient species, insist researchers
Retreating Alpine glacier gives up another body after 34 years
Jonathan Conville, 27, vanished from the Matterhorn in 1979. Now, as the ice melts, his remains join finds dating back 5,000 years
Looted Viking treasure is discovered in British Museum store
Curator spots 1,000-year-old brooch in lump taken from 19th-century excavation
Stonehenge unveils its £27m makeover in time for the winter solstice
After 30 years of planning and archaeological controversy, the ancient stones offer pagans and other visitors more than ever
Iron age hill fort threatened by plans to build 200 luxury homes
Protesters in Shropshire say housing for ‘affluent commuters and rich retirees’ will ruin a site of national importance and set back archaeological research
Neolithic discovery: why Orkney is the centre of ancient Britain
Long before the Egyptians began the pyramids, Neolithic man built a vast temple complex at the top of what is now Scotland. Robin McKie visits the astonishing Ness of Brodgar
Mass grave in London reveals how volcano caused global catastrophe
Scientists search for the explosive source of a disaster that wiped out almost a third of Londoners in 1258
Christina Warinner: it’s a good thing our ancestors didn’t floss their teeth
What fossilised dental plaque can reveal about ancient humans’ diet, disease and environment could improve our future health
Why the tale of Achilles and his lover still has the power to move us
A debut novel that reinterprets Homer’s Iliad is the latest in an array of works to be inspired by the classics
Scientists are accused of distorting theory of human evolution by misdating bones
Briton says Spanish researchers are out by 200,000 years and have even got the wrong species