To understand how New Year traditions came into existence – especially in the British Isles – is to explore a complex ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Abu Dhabi has quietly emerged as one of the Middle East’s most compelling cultural destinations. The Louvre Abu Dhabi anchors ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

Back in 2015, two men happened to find millions of dollars worth of ancient Viking treasure. What happened next will stun you. A heavy gold ring. A gold armband. A crystal ball. Then there were the ...

An ancient historian at the University of Leicester has found that the Rutland mosaic presents a version of the Trojan War that differs from the story told in Homer’s Iliad. Researchers studying what ...

Cumbria arguably has one of the best dining scenes in the U.K.—taste it for yourself at the three Michelin-starred ...

The Coffee Planters’ Fountain of Kandy, a historic monument commemorating the Prince of Wales’s 1875 visit to Kandy, reaches ...

What began as evergreen worship in pre-Christian cultures evolved through German traditions, British royal influence, and ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

By Chike ObidigboIn Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, two groups face persistent discrimination that traces back over a century to British colonial rule: the Igbo ethnic group and the Christian ...

Cirencester was founded in AD 43 after the Roman Invasion of Britain, and grew to be the second largest town in the country, ...