Many are familiar with the eruption of Vesuvius in 76 AD that destroyed Pompeii. But centuries earlier, Vesuvius also sent ...

About 8,500 years ago, a 5'6" man with size 11 feet walked along the Severn Estuary at 2.6 miles per hour carrying a heavy load on his right shoulder. Archaeologists deduced all this from a series of ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

The human Stone Age was, undeniably, the first step on a journey towards ... “These findings open new perspectives on ...

NEW STONE AGE GIRL:That’s our dinner ... This clip will be suitable for teaching History at KS2 in England, Foundation Phase and KS2 in Wales, KS1 and KS2 in Northern Ireland.

Carved stone balls which have been shaped by the hands of master masons in the late Stone Age 4,000 years ago have been found by archaeologists across the country, their purpose and forever lost ...

Archaeologists have found evidence of a vanished island that was teeming with human life during the Stone Age off the coast ... been destroyed and lost over history; the new exploratory site ...

Raise a mug to some of history’s milestone brews and take our ... who were known to harvest and process wild grain. In stone mortars carved into the cave’s bedrock floor, the team found ...

Looking at the extent of stone circles in Wales, the growth of Celtic hill forts and what they reveal about the changing society of that time.

This rare burial site reveals secrets about the Sahara's lush past This rare burial site reveals secrets about the Sahara's lush past The mysterious origin of Stonehenge’s altar stone might have ...

NARRATOR:Thousands of years ago much of the world was covered in thick layers of ice. It’s been called ‘The Ice Age’. NARRATOR:When the climate got warmer, the ice melted. Then, rising sea ...