As Tate stages the first major exhibition of the surrealist artist, Oliver Smith follows her to the ancient stone circles of Penwith ...

The Bronze Age was a period of intensive contacts in the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia and southern Europe. It rapidly developed ...

Well it is in Tanum, known for having one of the largest collections of prehistoric rock carvings in northern Europe. Located around 90 minutes north of ... art from the Bronze Age (around 1500 ...

Archaeological finds have shown that Yorkshire was occupied at a time when early hunters from continental Europe were no...

The volatile Donald Trump seems an unlikely harbinger of peace in West Asia, but he might be the only hope to rein in an ...

Shin guards in sport have been heavily influenced by greaves, an ancient armour fashioned by soldiers dating back to the Bronze Age that protected ... while wearing miniature shin pads.

Sixty years ago this week, the man voted by the British public as its greatest ever son died at the age of 90 ... Blenheim Palace A life-size bronze statue of Sir Winston painting was unveiled ...

Some scholars believe that Plato’s story of Atlantis is a distorted account of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization ... and was sheltered from the north.” Plato also goes on to describe the fact that ...

Many of the oldest inhabited cities in Greece are still standing against all odds. They have survived to this day to tell the ...

Ancient DNA research in the past decade has revealed that European population structure changed dramatically in the prehistoric period (14,000–3000 years before present, YBP), reflecting the ...