1621: Sir Francis Bacon is imprisoned in the Tower of London for one night. 1659: The Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague. 1669: The last entry in Samuel Pepys’s diary.

Africa roughly two million years ago. Scientists have unearthed various P. robustus fossils, but because of the specimens’ age, they haven’t been able to glean much from them.Now, using a novel method ...

The best hotels in York for a history-filled city break - From Georgian mansions to Regency townhouses, York has some of the ...

Archaeologists recently discovered the purpose of a mysterious 1,500-year-old bucket at one of England’s most historic sites – and it wasn’t pleasant.

The area, known to Armenians as Artsakh, contains many ancient churches and graveyards, and there is concern about their ...

One tomb belonged to Amum-em-Ipet, who lived during the Ramesside period (as the 19th and 20th Dynasties, the last two of the ...

On an overcast Saturday morning, Union Jack and American flag banners fluttered in the breeze as “God Save the King” and “The ...

Gladiators fighting lions is among the more enduring images of the arenas of ancient Rome ... 20 years ago in a Roman-era graveyard in York, England, were recently reexamined by British ...

In 1875, Aristides was the winner of the first Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.

A newly discovered fossil shark, Pararhincodon torquis, reveals ancient insights into shark evolution ... the ancestors of this shark species roamed the waters of southern England before migrating ...

Two men were convicted Friday of cutting down the beloved Sycamore Gap tree in northern England in 2023 in an ... the tree and toppling it onto the ancient Hadrian’s Wall. The tree was not ...