In May 1940, Hitler's armies swept through western Europe, knocking Britain's allies out of the war with bewildering speed and leaving the British Expeditionary Force horribly exposed. Hitler now ...

Few written sources date to the time, making it one of the least documented and least understood periods in British history. Hundreds of years later, medieval writers who chronicled early British ...

An early-medieval ship burial at the archaeological site of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, revealed a helmet in pieces, in the late 1930s. The helmet was speculated to reflect the power of an Anglo-Saxon ...

Originating in the later Bronze Age (1000 BC - 800 BC), the hill forts of the early Iron Age are found over a wide area of the British Isles: in Scotland (Finavon Fort in Angus), Wales (The ...

Scientists could already track big alterations in DNA that occur over thousands or millions of years, helping us learn, for example, how early humans evolved from ... things to work on in the whole of ...

After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in Chicago's Wrightwood 659 gallery later this week Eli Wizevich DNA extracted ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic societies were matrilocal ...

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic ...