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In Ancient Britain, men would leave their home to live with their wives
When the Romans came to Britain, they were stunned to see how powerful local women were. After all, the majority of ancient ...
Stonehenge, one of the most examined prehistoric structures globally, is located on Salisbury Plain in southern England. The long-standing debate has continued for decades regarding whether glaciers ...
The near-complete Iron Age carnyx was used to blare eerie sounds in battle and rally troops against the enemy.
A new ancient-DNA study suggests the Bronze Age people who transformed Britain around 2400 BC didn’t arrive from Iberia, as older narratives of the “Bell Beaker” story sometimes implied. Instead, ...
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11,000-year-old British baby girl’s bones unearthed in cave, rewrite history
In the Heaning Wood Bone Cave near Great Urswick, Cumbria, in 2023, archaeologists unearthed ...
A previously undiscovered 1,600-year-old burial site in northern England could provide key clues about a a largely undocumented period in British history, officials announced this week. The government ...
A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...
Archaeologists recently unearthed a stunning relic from the early days of ancient Britain: a Celtic battle trumpet, possibly tied to the tribe of the legendary Queen Boudica. In January, Historic ...
New research around Stonehenge is transforming a familiar monument into the hub of a vast prehistoric logistics system. Instead of an isolated stone circle, the evidence now points to a coordinated ...
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 ...
An archaeological excavation in Leeds has uncovered an ancient lead coffin in a previously unknown 1,600-year-old cemetery, which could help to unravel the mysteries of one of the most important ...
The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...
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