Historic Scotland is celebrating after a third prehsitoric stone figure was found in the archaeologically fertile grounds of the Links of Notland on Westray, Orkney.

A small Bronze Age pottery sherd, currently on display at the National Maritime Museum in Cornwall, could be the earliest representation of a boat ever found in the UK.

Thirty years of planning seem set to end at one of Britain's most famous heritage attractions, with a new visitor centre and major exhibition set for completion during 2013.

Curator's Choice: Elizabeth Walker, Curator of Palaeolithic & Mesolithic Archaeology at National Museum Cardiff picks a Neanderthal hand axe made of rhyolite, which dates back to c. 60,000-35,000 BC.

Scarborough Museums' Will Watts recalls a bitterly cold, ten-day excavation on a North Yorkshire beach which plugged a gap of around 60 million years.

The first major international exhibition at the refurbished National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh looks at the ancient Egyptian rituals surrounding death and the afterlife through an exciting array of treasures from the museum's own collections and the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.