More than 50 skeletons spanning 20 burials were recovered from beneath the Tower of London, with one mass grave dating back to the Black Death.

The stone fortress was built by William the Conqueror in the 1070s to guard his power and houses the crown jewels. The tower is steeped in tragic history. “Kings and queens imprisoned their rivals and ...

The first excavation at the famed Tower of London in a generation uncovered more than 20 skeletal remains. Excavations revealed everything from a 14 th-century Black Death group burial to three ...

In new excavations centered around the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula on the grounds of the Tower of London, archaeologists have uncovered more than 20 previously unknown burials. Following a ...

The most significant excavation in a generation is underway at the Tower of London and it’s promising to “re-draw the map of the medieval fortress” and shed light on some of the people who lived, ...

Built as a fortress by William the Conqueror beginning in the 1070s, the UNESCO-listed Tower of London is one of the city's most iconic landmarks. Once a palace for monarchs, a formidable state prison ...

As Historic Royal Palaces carries out a search for the nation’s best history teachers, Laura Reid hears from a Yorkshire-born ...

Find out if one of history’s greatest cold cases—the imprisonment of two princes in the Tower of London—can finally be solved. Their disappearance led to centuries of mystery and speculation. Were the ...

It’s not only illustrious or infamous guests who stayed at the Tower of London. Not only is it the final resting place to many traitors to the crown, the infamous Tower of London has also been home to ...

University of Nottingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Displayed as part of the museum’s larger collections of crowns, coronation regalia and other royal jewels dating ...

Tom Houghton told Insider he's lived within the Tower of London grounds since 2016. His father is the constable of the Tower of London, and the role means that the family gets to live in a home within ...

One day in 2021, Megan Clawson was walking home from a night out when she was inspired to record a video on her phone. “Yo, can you imagine that Henry VIII used to come home steaming to this, and I ...