Artwork by Christoph Niemann knits a combined scarf and glove for the southern hemisphere

This weekend marks the celebrations for this year's summer solstice – but forget visiting Stonehenge. Hugh Thomson prefers the wonders of its nearby rival, the largest stone circle in England

Ancient Britons made hundreds of thousands of dugout canoes, archaeologists now believe.

Archaeologists, excavating near the Royal Borough, have discovered the 4400 year old skeleton of an upper class woman

In a scientific tour-de-force worthy of the search for the elusively small Higgs boson, scientists have discovered that size really does matter to women when it comes to the length of a man’s manhood.

I thought I was doing so well. Since arriving in Jerusalem as this paper’s correspondent I have made a concerted effort to get fit. After a few years on the foreign desk in London, and consequently getting little exercise, sleep, vegetables, etc, I thought I’d shed a few pounds by running round my new home.

Discovery gives archaeologists an insight into the lives of people who lived on the rugged south western moorland  4,000 years ago

TV pick of the week: Howard Goodall's Story of Music

The sign said, 'The end of the world'; as did the look on my three-year-old's face. Below us, the dusky pink desert canyons and dimpled, rocky mountains of the Jordan Valley stretched west towards Jerusalem. And somewhere, far, far below the precipice we'd scaled to 'Sacrifice View', a bright blue cap was now swirling away, whisked off my son's head by the sharp wind that greeted us at the summit.

Eric Prokopi is accused of acquiring the ancient remains from Mongolia between 2010 and 2012

New film Sightseers shows rural Britain at its creepiest

The date when stone-age humans first invented the lethal technology of spears and arrows has been set back many thousands of years with the discovery of small stone blades dating to 71,000 years ago.

We've had Alien vs. Predator, Monsters vs. Aliens and Dracula vs. Frankenstein, but what would happen if modern man and his prehistoric ancestor were to square off?