An ancient building found in Kent is the oldest church building in Britain that is still in use today and part of a UNESCO ...

Excavations of sewer drains at a Roman fort in northern England have revealed the presence of several parasites that can ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

Unlike most Anglo-Saxon gold hoards, which are typically recovered from burial contexts alongside human remains and other grave goods, these objects were found scattered across a slope with no ...

Its aristocrats used to gather for “the season” in the summer months (Ascot in June, Lord’s and Henley in July) and for ...

Timber from the Whiligh estate in the Sussex Weald was used to build the vast hammerbeam roof of Westminster Hall — and its custodian still fells trees for very special commissions.

“Where the Cambridge in Context tour gives you all the history of the town side of the Cambridge story, the Hidden Cambridge ...

A woman billed as the 'earliest black Briton' was in fact white and from southern England, according to new DNA analysis.

And it is true that the Victorians had mummy unwrapping parties. So mummies would be, you know, shipped over from Egypt and ...

Along a quiet bend of the Farmington River in Connecticut, an excavation has peeled back the soil to reveal a Native American ...

When Britain’s King Charles III is crowned in London on May 6, he’ll sit on an ancient chair housing a 335-pound boulder cloaked in mystery. Used for British coronations since the late 14th century, ...

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