Dr Zahi Hawass, the controversial former head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities under President Mubarak’s regime,

A rare 13th-century glass jewel depicting the Crucifixion has been unearthed at Sizewell C in Suffolk, linking medieval England to Venetian and Byzantine traditions.

Short and succinct, the tale of Thorstein Shiver is one of the more comedic sagas and can be interpreted in at least

Hidden beneath 19th century stalls in Bath Abbey, Somerset, England, ‘bewildered’ restoration archaeologists discovered a pair of coins depicting a horned and hoofed, trident-wielding devil and the words “Civitas Diaboli” (city of the devil). But don’t have a Satanic panic just yet!

Scientists working at the Atapuerca Stone Age site in Spain have published a research paper that suggests human hibernation among Neanderthals was likely.

Think Roman baths were pristine? New chemical clues locked in Pompeii’s “limescale” suggest some early pools were rarely refreshed - and may have been contaminated by human waste.

We all know what the perfect woman’s body looks like. Or do we? Is it Kim Kardashian, with her popular ‘internet-breaking’ big behind, or Marilyn Monroe with her voluptuous movie curves? Is it a powerful and athletic Beyoncé? What about the waif-like, angular fashion models on the catwalks? For thousands of years, we’ve been changing our minds about what the perfect body looks like.

It may not be long before Artificial Intelligence creates access to God via modern technology, however during the 19th century, a spiritualist by the name of John Murray Spear was inspired to build a Mechanical Messiah.

At the end of last year archaeologists in Scotland celebrated the rare discovery of a complete stone circle. Now, however, a farmer has come forward declaring that he built it himself in the 1990s.

Desperate scientists call for the help of the science world as a Pleistocene era ‘graveyard’ in Siberia is destroyed by ivory hunters.