DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

From misty moorlands to ghostly coastal paths, the UK boasts an array of spooky locations for the Halloween season - here are ...

UK is home to countless atmospheric walking routes with spine-chilling histories, making autumn the perfect season to embark ...

Britain boasts countless atmospheric walks with spine-chilling histories — and Scotland's very own has found itself on a list ...

A remarkable 220-meter dinosaur trackway, one of the world's longest, has been unearthed in Oxfordshire, revealing the ...

Hidden in the English countryside lies a stone circle older, larger, and eerier than Stonehenge. Avebury’s quiet power is something you have to feel to believe. Tropical Storm Melissa update as ...

An Oxford University archaeologist exploring the Welsh countryside has discovered an ancient Roman road in Wales. He believes it might be the lost route upon which the bluestones were transported to ...

The Great St Michael and St Mary Alignment (or ‘corridor of incidence’) is probably the most famous ley-line in Britain, if not the world. Running for 350-miles across the country in a north-east to ...

Often overshadowed by Stonehenge, Avebury is older, larger, and more enigmatic. Its massive stone circles and ditches still raise questions about who built it—and why Tropical Storm Melissa update as ...

AUSTIN, TEXAS—According to a Live Science report, James Neely of the University of Texas at Austin and his colleagues suggest that country farmers used a 205-foot-long, scorpion-shaped effigy mound in ...

Debut author Robertson searches for meaning among ancient stone megaliths in this meandering memoir-cum-travelogue. After her husband was diagnosed with incurable gallbladder cancer when he turned 50, ...