In 43 AD, Rome launched its invasion of Britain, aiming to expand its empire. The Roman forces, led by Aulus Plautius, met a collection of Briton tribes led by Togodumnus and Caratacus on the banks of ...

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 ...

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 ...

As ancient humans left Africa, they encountered many harsh environments including the Sahara and the high Arctic, but one of ...

Stonehenge, one of the most iconic prehistoric monuments in the world, has long captivated historians, archaeologists, and tourists alike. This ancient stone circle located on England’s Salisbury ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the Black Death in the mid-1300s, most people first believed that rats spread the bubonic plague. Scientists would later understand that it was the fleas on the rats. It wasn’t until the 1890s ...