Lindow Man is to return to close to the spot where he met an appalling death almost 2,000 years ago, skull smashed in, strangled, stabbed, and finally dumped face down into the bog pool which preserved the evidence of his…

A team of archaeologists from the University of Exeter has found a Roman fort dating from the 1st Century AD in fields in Cornwall.

Several items of pottery have been excavated and a furnace which may have been used…

One of Britain’s most remote communities came together Tuesday to celebrate its Viking heritage with a spectacular festival of fire and fancy dress.During Up-Helly-Aa, hundreds of residents of the Shetland Islands off northern Scotland dressed up as Norsemen — complete…

The remains of an Iron Age man found in a peat bog are leaving the British Museum for the first time in 17 years. Lindow Man was found in a Cheshire marsh in 1984, nearly 2,000 years after…

WITCHES, heathens, druids and wiccans from across the UK are set to spend a spell in a tiny north-east community.The Pagan Federation is planning to hold its first summer camp in Inchberry near Fochabers. The three-day event, scheduled for July,…

Excavations at Zeus’s mountaintop “birthplace” suggest the site’s ash altar was in use at least 5,000 years ago—a thousand years before the earliest known versions of the myth of the Greek god.

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Kettlebells come in “poods.” A pood is an old Russian measure of weight which equals 16 kilograms, or 35 pounds. For comrades who really like to throw their weight around, kettlebells go up to 48 kg (106 pounds).

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BRITONS are leaving the country in record numbers—thanks to spiralling levels of IMMIGRATION, CRIME and TAX.
Government figures set to be released later this year will show that an astonishing 250,000 people fled Britain in 2007.

Meanwhile, huge…

The Sea Stallion from Glendalough, a 30 metre Viking Warship recently featured in a BBC One documentary, has benefited from a 2 million Kronor donation from the Shipowner Carston Brebol Foundation.

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A story based on the Three Little Pigs fairy tale has been turned down by a government agency’s awards panel as the subject matter could offend Muslims. The digital book, re-telling the classic story, was rejected by judges…

A coach driver discovered Britain’s largest hoard of Bronze Age axeheads while waiting for a party of school-children at a Dorset farm.

Tom Peirce, 60, asked the farm’s owner if he could use his metal detector in one of the…

Laser technology is being used to locate potential archaeological sites hidden by woodland in Worcestershire. The hope is that ancient settlements and farms across the Wyre Forest will be detected by lasers fired from aircraft 3,300ft (1,000m) up.

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STUNNING Anglo-Saxon jewellery discovered on a North-East farm will not be lost to the British Museum, in London, it was pledged yesterday.

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A woman who is being prosecuted for selling vegetables by the pound branded the case against her “disgusting” yesterday as she made her first appearance in court.

Janet Devers, Britain’s latest “metric martyr”, vowed to continue trading at the stall…

Britain’s own underwater “Atlantis” could be revealed for the first time with hi-tech underwater cameras. Marine archaeologist Stuart Bacon and Professor David Sear, of the University of Southampton, will explore the lost city of Dunwich, off the Suffolk…

A spat over whether Dannevirke (New Zealand) should retain its Scandinavian heritage could see the axe fall on its Viking icon.

Opponents say portraying a warrior race renowned for pillaging, looting, and carrying off women would be culturally insensitive and…

The Vatican has cancelled the proposed visit of Pope Benedict XVI on 17th to the most ancient University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’ (The Wisdom) owing to the protests of a section of professors and students of the University.

The refusal…

Joanne Harris’ “Runemarks” follows a young girl’s adventures among Scandinavian gods and goblins; in case you’re wondering, there’s still plenty of myth to go around in the young adult market.

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AN unexpected historical discovery has been made at Scottish Water’s site at Glencorse, near Penicuik — a Roman marching camp nearly 2000 years old.

The revelation has provided another clue as to how the Romans organised their occupation of…

The famous volcanic eruption in which Vesuvius buried Pompeii and Herculaneum was so powerful that some of the ash and lava ended up in Greece, according to researchers at Thessaloniki University.

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