From migratory practices to modern language, learn how sheep have played a major role in the history of humanity.

Tattoos have been significant in several ancient ... Studies and British Museum curator Daniel Antoine, who found that the Gebelein Man's arm had a tattoo of two horned animals which appeared ...

A perhaps lesser known companion that lived alongside the Woolly Mammoth, and other ice animals in an ancient British Isles, was the Woolly Rhino. It was during a time when the UK looked more like ...

“This was not a common occurrence in Britain at this time,” says University ... was to treat these individuals as though they were animals.” The bone assemblage may represent an entire ...

they are very strong predatory animals, and their slow metabolic rate helps them survive changing climates. These most ancient predators continue to rule the waters, proving that evolution does ...

Sadly, today, Britain’s wildlife continues to be under threat with one in six species on the brink of dying out. Read on to discover incredible animals ... chewing plants. Ancient bones that ...

I'm an archaeologist and I'm in search of Britain's ancient voices. Thousands of years ago, back in the early Stone Age, people were what we call hunter-gatherers. They hunted animals and used ...

Ancient bones that were excavated in Suffolk suggest that an ancestor of the modern walrus used to live in Britain. A pair of lower jawbones of an Ontocetus posti, the Latin name for a walrus-type ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman ... An examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 graves in Dorset in southwest England ...

who found hundreds of ancient coins that were buried 2,000 years ago in the northern border region of the Roman Empire. The hoard contains 44 British coins that bear the name of British Celtic ...