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.

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 ...

Historic Environment Scotland launches trove.scot, a digital portal with 3M+ records on Glasgow’s historic sites, archaeology ...

Ahead of Valentine's Day this weekend, experts at AllTrails have shared a roundup of the "most romantic" walks — with a ...

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 ...

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But in Scotland the sunshine is only strong enough to allow our ... The study is a global first in applying a new technique ...

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 ...

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 ...