In Britain, archaeologists have found Iranian and Egyptian beads, Scandinavian amber items, Aegean metalwork, Cypriot and ...

This rich setting provides the ideal environment for UHI Orkney’s MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology, a unique postgraduate degree which encourages the blurring of distinctions between artistic and ...

on the island of Hoy in Orkney, the nearest rock-cut parallel for which is in Sardinia. The archaeological and other scientific investigations, that have been contributing to a greater ...

Discovered by chance by local farmer Ronnie Simison in the 1950s, the Stone Age tomb revealed an amazing collection of bones and artefacts, ...

It's highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing's Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine ...

Sam dives into a ‘sea of sharks’, crooks profiting from a multi-billion pound industry. Craig Corse and Alice Tait feature artists appearing at this year's Orkney Folk Festival.

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