Explorers are planning to recover a rare batch of whisky lost during explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to the South Pole a century ago.

A 300-year-old document which led to one of the most infamous episodes in Scottish history is to go on display.

Wet spells in the Sahara may have opened the door for early human migration. According to new evidence, water-dependent trees and shrubs grew there between 120,000 and 45,000 years ago. This suggests that changes in the weather helped early humans cross

Bones, jewelry and weapons found in Egyptian desert may be the remains of Cambyses' army that vanished 2,500 years ago.

From the desertification of north Africa by Roman wheat farmers to the collapse of fish stocks off Newfoundland in the 1990s, there is a rich seam of such stories to mine. Now there is a new one from Peru, which centres on the fate of the Nazca people

The end of the world is near--December 21, 2012, to be exact--according to theories based on a purported ancient Maya prediction and fanned by the marketing machine behind the soon-to-be-released 2012 movie.

Five hundred Viking era silver artifacts have been plundered from a site of archaeological interest on the Baltic island of Gotland.

An amateur treasure hunter has unearthed ancient gold jewellery from a field near Stirling using a metal detector

The discovery of an early human fossil in southern China may challenge the commonly held idea that modern humans originated out of Africa.

The burial site of the Thracian aristocrat contains a number of interesting items including a silver treasure of vessels and artifacts that were place there to be used by the aristocrat in his afterlife.