Landmark autumn show to feature 150 works across 6,000 years including the Chimera of Arezzo and Trundholm sun chariot
Historic houses, without the swagger
Our views of the past have changed, and we’re less interested in grand stately homes than their humble kitchens and outhouses
Stonehenge enjoys a moment in the sun at summer solstice
As worshippers and revellers descend, the Wiltshire landmark is thriving – inspiring bouncy art and more wild theories than ever
Neanderthals may have been first human species to create cave paintings
Estimates of the age of cave paintings in northern Spain could be the final nail in the coffin of the ‘dumb Neanderthals’ myth
Unknown Victorian Londoner reburied in style to make way for viaduct
Reburial of hundreds of remains of poor Londoners includes funeral service at Southwark Cathedral for ‘unknown parishoner’
Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre unearthed in east London
Theatre where Romeo and Juliet was first performed is rediscovered in Shoreditch centuries after it was dismantled
Thames holds a mirror to 60 years of change
The Thames is at the heart of the Queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations. And a trip down it by boat is the best way to see how much the nation has changed during her reign
Gnawed Roman skeleton that inspired Sylvia Plath poem goes on display
Sarcophagus containing bones of Roman woman and rodents that chewed her ankle go on show at Cambridge museum
How stone age man invented the art of raving
New scientific techniques reveal how large tribal gatherings swept neolithic Britain
Mayan astronomical charts found in Guatemalan jungle are oldest known
Paintings of the Mayan king and astronomical hieroglyphs unearthed in a room buried under a collapsed building