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A 'hugely important' Iron Age burial ground has been discovered at a site on Burnby Lane, Pocklington, east Yorkshire.
The burial ground was discovered during excavations for a property development, which has now been halted to allow…
A ring belonging to Joan of Arc was purchased from a London auction house last month by French theme park Puy du Fou. Now it seems it could have been taken out of the country without an export licence, and the British authorities could demand its…
Recent analysis of a copy of England's oldest printed Bible has shed new light on the process of the English Reformation.
The Bible, which was published in 1535 by Henry VIII's own printer, was written in Latin, the standard language of…
Last Friday, 11 March, Guiness World Records confirmed that the world's oldest living man is Holocaust survivor Mr Israel Kristal of Haifa, Israel.
Kristal was born near Zarnow in Poland on 15 September 1903, making him 112 years and 181…
Academic Dorian Gerhold has discovered the true origin of the Great Fire of London.
We all think we know the Great Fire of London started in Thomas Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane, where the alarm was first raised at about 2am on 2nd…
South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk is hoping to clone cave lions after two well-preserved cubs were discovered in the Siberian permafrost last year.
The cubs, named Uyan and Dina, are at least 12,000 years old and are the best preserved of…
Homo neanderthalensis, a species, or subspecies of human who lived between 250,000 and 40,000 years ago,[note]Although proto-Neanderthals could have existed up to 600,000 years ago.[/note] are modern humans' closest cousins. For thousands of…
In 55BCE, a large group of German refugees crossed the Rhine seeking new farming land in Gaul. Sending ambassadors to Caesar, they requested safe passage and help in finding new lands. Caesar, fearing trouble and aware of the political implications…
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