Evidence of feasting in the Hebrides 5,000 years ago and the discovery of a lost medieval settlement in the Borders have been ...

New research by a leading historian shows a surprising historical perspective on being British. In late medieval Scotland, the island of Britain was sometimes seen as fundamentally Scottish. This ...

A medieval structure, believed to be one of the world’s oldest whisky stills, has been discovered among the ruins of a Scottish abbey. Archaeologists uncovered the structure at the site of Lindores ...

Outlander lovers, prepare to pack your bags; archaeologists have just discovered a "forgotten" castle on the remote Hebridean isle. Officials believe that the fortress, built across two small islands ...

Today, David Cameron has taken his Cabinet to Aberdeen, a symbolic move to highlight the importance of Scotland as part of the United Kingdom ahead of the Independence Referendum. But although the ...

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Scientists have ingeniously built a 3D digital reconstruction of a 'beautiful' 14th century woman and a cleric with a cleft palate - both of whom will talk to visitors at a book festival about life at ...

Traces of four medieval structures dating from the 14th to 17th centuries were discovered next to a highway near Bothwell in Scotland, where the Netherton Cross (a 10th century stone cross) once stood ...

Scottish medieval city builder and colony sim Clanfolk just got even more Scottish with the addition of bogs and bagpipes to the management game. Update eight has now rolled out for Clanfolk's Steam ...