Recently there has been a bit of a kerfuffle around ancient Egypt. Three new royal tombs have been uncovered in as many weeks, and that’s something of a big deal when the last one we found was Tutankhamun’s in 1922. The latest news comes from a group of three researchers, Corrado Malanga, Armando Mei and
The island of Great Britain has a strange and unusual history, and part of the challenge is connecting the history we know with the landscape we see today. As more and more discoveries are made, the story only gets weirder. We have stories of battles, kings of ancient myth. We know of invading armies and
For centuries, after the Romans left, Britain was ruled by the seven kings of the Heptarchy. This was a time of rival realms and rival claimants, a time of petty kingdoms and tribute extracted at the point of a sword. This was a time where might made right, where the most powerful of the kings
Something unusual has been dug up in the Judean desert north of the waterway of Nahal Zohar. An ancient pyramid, dating back to the Hellenistic period, is emerging from the arid sandstone which has concealed it for 2,200 years. Don’t be fooled by the name: this pyramid was not built by Greeks, although they certainly
Near the city of Matlock in Derbyshire lies Farley Wood, a sprawling mix of pine for logging amidst old growth harking back to an ancient time when dense forests covered the British Isles. Locals have long known about the strange stone at the heart of the wood, standing straight upright like a pillar some two
A new study from a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge has upended centuries of theory as to the origins and evolution of… us. We are not who we thought we were, it seems. Previously the longstanding scientific consensus was that Homo sapiens was one of a family of human and near-human species