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‘Compelling evidence’ suggests figure is Lady Jane Grey, making it only known depiction made before 1554 executionShe was known as the “nine-day queen” and was used as a pawn in the ruthless ambition that defined the Tudor court. But for centuries, his…
City damaged during occupation by Islamic State group reopens 850-year-old mosque in time for Ramadan as reconstruction gathers pace In the small courtyard of Sara’s grandmother’s house, children are running and playing as if time had never passed. “T…
Archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circleAn “extraordinary” timber circle believed to be thousands of years old and connected to Stonehenge in England has been discovered in the ground …
Findings in Tower Hamlets archives shed light on resistance to enslavement likened to Underground Railroad in USThe untold stories of Black Londoners who escaped slavery in the capital and joined free communities in the East End have been uncovered by …
Factories, nightclubs, lifesavers and pigeon-fanciers to be celebrated in films and community storytellingStories of an old bacon factory in Wiltshire, a rollerskating hotspot in Birmingham and a pigeon fanciers’ enclave in West Yorkshire are to be cel…
Mati Diop, the director of Dahomey, which charts the restitution of 26 objects to Benin, says the tiny number involved is ‘humiliating’The first major return of looted treasures from Europe to Africa in the 21st century has left a lingering feeling of …
Chilean social media users target institution, forcing it at one point to close comments on all its postsThe British Museum is tackling an influx of social media trolls from Chile, who have flooded the museum’s Instagram posts calling for the return of…
Antiquities authority drops proposal for Menkaure pyramid after review prompted by international outcryEgypt has scuttled a controversial plan to reinstall ancient granite cladding on the pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the three great pyramids of…
Portraits and objects explore those who looked after the royals, from ‘the keeper of ice and snow’ to the ‘groom of the stool’From pages to cooks, and wet nurses to seamstresses, little is known about the servants and courtiers who ran the royal palace…
Origins of Dorset hillside chalk figure was as muster station for West Saxon armies fending off Vikings, historians concludeFor centuries, historians and archaeologists have puzzled over the origins of the Cerne Abbas giant, the huge, naked, club-wield…