When the Romans came to Britain, they were stunned to see how powerful local women were. After all, the majority of ancient ...

When you imagine life for ordinary people in ancient Britain, you’d be forgiven for picturing quaint villages where everyone looked and spoke the same way. But a recent study could change the way ...

New research revealing a major migration to the island of Great Britain offers fresh insights into the languages spoken at the time, the ancestry of present-day England and Wales, and even ancient ...

New excavations near Canterbury reveal stone tools dating between 560,000 and 620,000 years old, proving Homo heidelbergensis ...

Neil Oliver travels back to ice age Britain as he begins the epic story of the evolution of the land and its occupants over thousands of years of ancient history. In this episode he describes a ...

The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long ...