The Cucuteni-Tripolye culture flourished between about 5200-3000 BC. At its apogee between about 4000-3500 BC, its people had ...

Said to be one of the most attractive late 1800s churches in Cornwall, it is very un-Cornish in appearance. Under its steep ...

The Levant between about 10,000-3000 BC was the centre of the Neolithic Farmer revolution in the Near East. The process of domesticating wild crops was a gradual one, taking place during the ...

With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...

It was the Romans who coined the name 'Gaul' to describe the Celtic tribes of what is now France and Belgium, quite possibly based on an original form of the word 'Celt' itself (see feature link).

Situated around modern Durham and Northumberland, the kingdom was based on one called Bernaccia which seems to have been founded during the break-up of Romano-British administration in fifth century ...

South of the Chilterns, and cutting a line westwards through southern England from Londinium to the Goring Gap (near East Wansdyke), the Thames Valley proved to be the location of one of the earliest ...

Incorporating the Brigantes Coriondi, Erainn, Hiberni/Iverni, Luceni, Usdiae, Uterni, Velabri/Vellabori, & Vodii Toirdelbach O'Brien's death sees Munster divided for his sons, Tadc, Muirchertach and ...

This is perhaps the most famous of all cuneiform tablets. It is the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh epic, and describes how the gods sent a flood to destroy the world. Like Noah, Utnapishtim was ...

This map depicts Europe when the ice sheets were not at their fullest extent, but when conditions were colder than those of the present day. Features to be noted are the extension of the coastal ...