With Christmas almost upon us, there will be plenty of frenzied present shopping and meal planning. Haven’t made that Christmas cake yet? Fear not. If you were preparing the festive meal 600 years ago you’d have far more on your plate.

The Christmas tree is an iconic feature of the holiday season. You can find this symbol on greeting cards, in advertisements, shaped into cookies, plastered across wrapping paper, and in the homes of millions of people around the world. But few of us stop to consider why we go to the effort of decorating a tree each year; apart from thinking of its value in increasing our ‘Christmas cheer’.

Mistletoe, holly and many other popular Christmas symbols originate in much older winter traditions.

A team of scholars says their new research is rewriting when and where the Viking age began.

At the Must Farm Bronze Age site in England archaeologists have now turned up a wooden wheel to add to other signific

Archaeologists in Scotland have made “astounding discoveries” in a murky loch which finally determines when ancient homes known as crannogs were first used, and it’s thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

Just when we think that something is changing in our world, it becomes apparent that nothing is in fact changing at a

Some years ago somebody is reported to have said: "The victors write the histories”. Though this chestnut has no attribution, it nevertheless appears in many works including school textbooks.

Archaeologists have discovered a 5,200-year-old crafted stone silkworm chrysalis, illustrating the deep roots of the Silk Road industry.

According to Scandinavian mythology, the