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 ...

The medieval David I silver coin, discovered in a wooded area in Midlothian, has been dated to the second half of the 1130s.

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 ...

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Stand before the central altar of Scotland's legendary Rosslyn Chapel and look up. A stone face grins down at you, leaves spilling from its mouth, but something's wrong with its smile. The front left ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The remains of two castles, one of them up to 800 years old, have been discovered in Glasgow. They came to light during a £250m project by Scottish Water to upgrade the city's waste water ...