The Olympic flame starts its journey to London this week from the Temple of Hera in Greece. It will be held in a torch of pioneering. British design. Emily Dugan sheds a little light

The largest collection of ancient Chinese royal treasures  ever permitted to leave China will go on display in Britain next week.

Sweet Billy Pilgrim's follow-up to 2009's Mercury-nominated Twice Born Men finds songwriter Tim Elsenburg making great strides forward with an ambitious cycle of songs about identity and history.

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a Neolithic portal dolmen, one of Western Europe's oldest ritual burial chambered monuments, in an isolated field in Wales.

Conservationists and archaeologists have urged the Government to sign The Hague convention on the protection of historical artefacts at times of war.

Week after week, the BBC Olympics comedy, which returns on Friday, came up with plots ahead of real life

The remains of a mysterious Anglo-Saxon princess, who died  thirteen and a half centuries ago, have been found in a field three miles south of Cambridge.

Widow of Atlantic Records founder gives Oxford £26m for spectacular study centre

New archaeological evidence suggests that America was first discovered by Stone Age people from Europe – 10,000 years before the Siberian-originating ancestors of the American Indians set foot in the New World.

My usually organised friend Abi emailed, cross with the unsightly clump of jewellery stuffed in her drawer. "I need organised storage," she wrote. "And as many pieces are like mini works of art it seems silly not to display them: but how?" Here's what I suggested...

The remains of the first HMS Victory are to be raised from the sea bed nearly 300 years after it sank, it was reported today.

The helmet could have been captured as a war trophy or a diplomatic gift from a Roman officer

Discovery reignites debate over transportation of smaller standing stones

The long scientific dispute over when anatomically modern humans first arrived in Europe on their long trek out of Africa has come close to resolution – with the help of a fragment of jawbone belonging to an elderly person who lived near present-day Torquay.