Archaeologists found traces of a milk protein in seven prehistoric Britons' calcified dental plaque Sophy Charlton/Dorset County Museum A new analysis of Neolithic farmers’ dental plaque suggests milk ...

Neolithic Britons cooked cereals, including wheat, in pots to make early forms of gruel and stew, new research has suggested. Scientists made the discovery by carrying out chemical analysis of ancient ...

Prehistoric Britons traveled impressive distances to attend celebrations at monumental sites like Stonehenge, according to new research. Incredibly, many of them brought their pigs along with them for ...

Some say King Arthur slew a giant there. Others say he knelt in prayer and his knee print indentations are forever etched into the stone. Archaeologists set out to find out what really happened at ...

The descendants of Stonehenge’s creators arrived to Britain from the east. That’s the upshot of a remarkable new study in which researchers compared the DNA of Neolithic humans in Britain to that of ...

Ancient DNA has provided scientists with a much better understanding of where the people who built Stonehenge came from. A study has found that ancestors of the Stonehenge builders traveled west ...

Mysterious man-made islands in Scotland are thousands of years older than we thought. The stone structures are found in lochs across the country and were likely built by ancient Britons as sacred ...

The "altar stone" at the center of Stonehenge likely originated in present-day Scotland, a study found. That's more than 450 miles away, raising questions about how ancient humans ...

Stone Age Britons extracted salt from seawater using industrial-style processes more than 5500 years ago. The discovery means people in Great Britain were producing salt thousands of years earlier ...