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Martin Carruthers, Site Director at The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute research excavation at The Cairns, Orkney, talks about the latest research findings from the site…
Artefacts and structures found during archaeological excavations on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie to Tipperty (AWPR/B-T) project are shedding light on land use and settlement in the …
A 2,000-year-old underground chamber has been uncovered during work to build a house on the Isle of Lewis, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides (an archipelago in Scotland) The I…
The search for the lost Pictish monastery where the first examples of Scottish Gaelic were written down has made a major breakthrough ten years after the quest began. The notes in the tiny Book of De…
A golden crown dating from the fourth-century BC will be returned to Turkey following an out-of-court settlement between a Turkish national residing in Scotland and the Government of Turkey. AA Photo…
Historic buildings at the heart of St Andrews have been digitally reconstructed to reveal how they looked nearly 500 years ago before the Reformation changed the face of the town forever. Credit: Uni…
The face of one of the Seventeenth Century Scottish soldiers who was imprisoned and died in Durham following the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 has been revealed through a remarkable new digital reconstruc…
Archaeologists say they are finding increasing evidence that a site near Loch Ness was important for burials in the Bronze Age. The excavation of the second cist grave [Credit: AOC Archaeology] A sec…
Geologists exploring volcanic rocks on Scotland's Isle of Skye found something out-of-this-world instead: ejecta from a previously unknown, 60 million-year-old meteorite impact. The discovery, th…
Sky lanterns can be a major fire risk – once lit and set off into the sky you don't know where an ignited lantern will land A Scottish council has banned sky lanterns on its property and i…
Jamie Cooper, 33, claims that the unidentified object was spotted by his 13-year-old son James hanging over Ayr Harbour for around 15 minutes at 5.30pm on Sunday. Martin Little www.pressandj…
The extraordinary video shows UFOs flying along the M8 motorway as stunned drivers gaze up in awe. The mysterious lights were captured on film hovering above Hermiston Gait roundabout was cap…
A NEWMAINS man recorded an apparent UFO sighting last year. Eric Cunningham posted in December 2015 that an unidentified flying object which was black underneath,and reflected a grey/blueish c…
Scotland's Dalkeith Kilwinning Lodge No. 10 claims to have the oldest continuously operating Masonic temple building in the world. With portions of its home dating to 1766, it has withstood the …
