Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

Take a walk back in time on a visit to Fife, home to towering cathedrals, ancient abbeys and the world’s oldest golf course.

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The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

Polar bears may have also been on the prowl some 50,000 years ago, in an ancient Scotland - well before humans occupied the land. Researchers, in 2023, found possible evidence that polar bears ...

Scientists in Scotland have developed a new method to understand the heat and intensity of fires that burned out millions of ...

People living in Scotland 400 hundred years apart have been shown to suffer similar seasonal declines over winter in their ...

The castle has been home to various royals throughout history, once housed military prisoners within its thick walls and has changed hands between the Scottish and English after many bloody ...

A Scottish Labour “implosion” means voters are set to return the largest pro-independence Holyrood majority in the history of ...

He asserted that the ancient Gaelic Kings of Scotland had been elected and not divinely appointed. Hence they were subject to the law of Scotland and not above it. So, if a monarch broke his or ...