When Dame Judi Dench tries to teach her recalcitrant African grey parrot, Sweetie, the name of her literary hero, she’s met ...

Learn about the recent eruption of Hayli Gubbi, a volcano in Ethiopia that was previously dormant for nearly 12,000 years.

Rise and Fall (BBC Two) is that it has nothing to do with Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation, despite the BBC ...

In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and Japan’s Edo Samurais. The show tells these stories through a combination of ...

Timothy Spall as J.W. Turner working on a reproduction of the huge, poetic painting The Harbour of Dieppe (1825‒1826) in Mr.

In a world determined to sideline her, Empress Matilda tested the medieval world's understanding of who could rule.

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Pandora was a triumph in the heyday of Australian maritime archaeology ( the 1980-1990s). It put Queensland on the global map ...

The party's head of policy says he has never met Nathan Gill, who served as the leader of Reform UK in Wales in 2021.

Spearheaded by MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), experts have unearthed ancient tools dating back to the Mesolithic and ...

Berlin’s Museum of Natural History is one of the world's most important research institutions. Home to an incredible ...

A little over 200 years ago, the Greeks began their war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, which had conquered most of ...