Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

The circular arrangement of pits forms a boundary over two kilometers wide, enclosing more than three square kilometers around the Durrington Walls henge and Woodhenge monuments. Each pit measures up ...

Professor Timothy Darvill, who has died of cancer aged 66, was a leading authority on prehistoric Britain; in 2008 he co-directed the first excavations within the stone circle at Stonehenge for more ...

With its rolling hills, woodland and low-lying fields, it can be hard to picture anything apart from cows, sheep and foxes roaming around the landscapes of the United Kingdom. However, thousands of ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Archaeologists from the UCL Institute of Archaeology have made a significant discovery in Kent, unearthing some of the largest stone artifacts from prehistoric times in Britain. The excavations, ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

The origins of the Celtic languages are cloaked in mystery. With desperately few written records, its story survives only in ...

In the 1970s, archaeologists unearthed prehistoric human remains from a deep underground shaft in Somerset, England. The truth of what really happened to those men, women, and children, however, has ...

Join bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears in the third and final episode of our Ancient Britain series, as he explores the relics of Iron Age Britain. On his journey, Ray visits the magnificent ...