Archaeology

The step pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara

Q&A How many pyramid tombs are there in Egypt?

Archaeologist Howard Carter opens the coffin of Tutankhamun. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

How did Tutankhamun die?

Photo of Lincoln Cathedral

Q&A What overtook the Great Pyramid of Giza as the tallest manmade structure?

10,000 BC participants in their Mesolithic-style camp. (Channel 5)

Back to the Stone Age: would you survive?

Historian Miles Russell.

History explorer Extravagance in Roman Britain: a visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace

The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

The discovery of Richard III’s remains

Professor Richard Bradley investigates the Neolithic tomb of Wayland's Smithy. The stone monument we see today hides an earlier wooden structure that held the remains of 14 people. (Photo by Oliver Edwards)

General prehistory

History Explorer: Neolithic treatment of the dead

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Time’s Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination

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Second World War

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Kathleen Kenyon challenged biblical accounts with her pioneering work at the ancient city of Jericho. (Photo by Bettmann/contributor via Getty Images)

My history hero: Kathleen Kenyon (1906–78)

Bluestones, like these in the Preseli hills, were used to build Stonehenge. (Photo by Paula Connelly via Getty Images)

General ancient history

Britain’s buried secrets

Lewis Chessmen found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

The Library Objects with meanings: How artefacts can give us a new take on global history

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Made of basalt, this inscribed stone dates to the sixth century BC. The figure is Nabonidus who was the last king of Babylon before the Persian invasion under Cyrus II. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

General ancient history

Babylon: From riches to ruins