10+ hour, 41+ min ago   (662+ words) When looking for a way to brighten up your day, not many would head for the graveyard. For Wigtown bookshop owner and author Bre Martin, however, there is no better place to spend your time. He has made it his…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (597+ words) An "exceptionally rare" Anglo-Saxon ornament more than 1,400 years old has been blocked from leaving the UK by the government. The metal mount, depicting a four-legged animal, was discovered by a metal detectorist in Holme Hale, near Swaffham, Norfolk, in 2024. The…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (532+ words) A pioneering fossil hunter who was one of the first women to be employed by the National History Museum has been recognised with a national blue plaque. Dorothea Bate, who died in 1951 aged 72, "transformed our understanding of prehistoric animals and…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (416+ words) A blue plaque has been unveiled to honour one of the first female scientists to be employed by the Natural History Museum. Dorothea Bate began working for the institution in 1898, aged 19, before being transferred to the museum's site in Tring,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (823+ words) Researchers believe the first known humans to set foot on Ireland thousands of years ago were most likely from Wales, following the "exciting" discovery of ancient cave art. During the most recent Ice Age, when much of the British Isles…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (382+ words) Archaeologists in Slovenia have uncovered huge stone structures on the country's Karst plateau. These were once vast prehistoric traps used to funnel and capture herds of deer over 3,000 years ago. The discovery has revealed one of Europe's largest and oldest…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (971+ words) More than 140 years ago, dock workers made a discovery that would take generations to explain - 23 human skulls buried alongside the remains of prehistoric animals. The extraordinary haul included more than 60 pairs of red deer antlers, aurochs skulls and two dugout…...