Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old. By Alexander Nazaryan The banks of the Thames River have hosted human settlements ...

Twice a day, every day, the tides of the River Thames rise and fall, revealing a foreshore that, in the middle of London, has been a focus of human activity for millennia. Making use of the limited ...

An underground museum storeroom reveals ancient whale skeletons found in the Thames, then carefully cleaned, examined, and ...

Explore mudlarking along the River Thames, uncovering a mix of ancient artifacts and modern objects hidden in the river mud. A mudlarking permit from the Port of London Authority is required in order ...

Why so many human remains from the Bronze and Iron Age have surfaced from the Thames remains unknown. Researchers have dated a large number of the skeletons to those time periods, which possibly means ...

As successive generations of Londoners have lived in the city over thousands of years, their everyday lives have generated plenty of objects, whether cherished belongings or detritus. Some of these ...

LONDON — Scarlet uniforms flashed against the riverbank. Wooden skiffs glided in formation. A young swan, gently lifted from the water, was measured, inspected and released. The annual five-day census ...

LONDON — A remarkable archaeological endeavor in the heart of the British capital has brought to light one of the most extensive collections of painted Roman wall plaster ever unearthed in the city.