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High street bakery Greggs has been a British favourite since 1939, but one diehard fan has claimed its famous pasties could have been a favourite as far back as the sixteenth century. Twitter user Luke (@goopery), from Manchester, couldn't resist tweeting the baker when he spotted...

Theresa May and 11 senior ministers have been thrashing out the UK's approach to Brexit in an eight-hour discussion at the PM's country retreat. BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said everyone is said to have left Chequers happy implying "baby steps forwards not a huge...

Contrary to the traditional view of them as brutes, it turns out that Neanderthals were artists. A study in Science journal suggests they made cave drawings in Spain that pre-date the arrival of modern humans in Europe by 20,000 years. They also appear to have used painted sea shells as...

The secret to how the ancient Egyptians achieved the near-perfect alignment of the Great Pyramid of Giza may have finally been uncovered. Ancient engineers used shadows cast during the equinox to line up the 4,500-year-old structure with the cardinal points, north-south-east-west, an...

A stunning statue which once stood in the ancient kingdom of Nubia has been revealed by archaeologists as depicting the ruler Aspelta. An inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphics was located on fragments of the 2,600-year-old monument at the ruins of a temple near the Nile River...

Stonehenge has a proud place in Britain's history as one of the wonders of the world and the best-known prehistoric monument in Europe. But, according to a major new study, modern-day Britons are barely related to the ingenious Neolithic farmers who built the monument 5,000 years ago...

A recreation of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham is to leave its home at a British university to travel to the United States – fulfilling his wish 180 years after he died. His skeleton, wax head, clothes, hat, chair and walking stick is to leave University College London and to go on display at...

An elite group of citizens flaunted their status by wearing 'ostentatious' rings in the last days of Roman rule over Britain. Experts looked at flashy Brancaster rings, which they have dated to the fourth and fifth centuries, for clues about their owners. They found that the quality of metals...

The BBC will launch its first virtual reality news documentary today, giving viewers the power to point the ‘camera’ where they want. Audience members watching Damming the Nile VR through a special virtual reality headset will feel as though they are at the heart of the action without ever...

A metal detectorist has spoken of his shock after discovering two halves of the same valuable gold ring - a year apart. Pensioner Paul Schorn, 69, discovered the first half of the broken 14th century ring in a field near Winchester in Hampshire in 2016. He went back to the ancient site...

Senior Labour officials are alleged to have aided the Soviet Union. Left-leaning Oxfam is accused of covering up the sexual exploitation of impoverished Haitians and its chief executive, hauled before MPs, admits that the charity faces 26 further allegations of sexual misconduct. Evidence of...

The corset seen on Queen Elizabeth I's funeral effigy is to be unveiled as part of a new exhibition at Westminster Abbey. The delicate garment was supplied by the Queen's tailor, William Jones, to be used in the procession marking the death of the monarch in 1603. For 415 years the bodice has...

MYSTERY surrounds an ancient Greek temple which has been dubbed a "portal to hell" after a spate of unexplained deaths. For years any beast or bird that came near reportedly dropped dead amid claims they were killed by the deadly breath of the Greek god of the Underworld, Hades. During...

The riddle of how ancient humans first began to speak may have been solved. It was invented to help them mess about in boats, a leading academic controversially suggests. Man 'began using words 1 million years ago': Researchers believe humans would not have been able to build boats and sail...

Animal bones dating back five million years - including some from a mammoth - have been handed in to a charity shop. The remains of bison and fossilised sea urchins were also among the donations handed into the Norwich branch of East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH). Mammoth bones...

Roman boxing gloves have been discovered near Hadrian’s Wall, thought to be the only known surviving examples, even though the sport was well-documented on Roman wall paintings, mosaics and sculptures. With a protective guard designed to fit snugly over the knuckles, the gloves were...

Chinese authorities have demanded "severe punishment" for a man who allegedly stole the thumb of a terracotta warrior statue on display in the US, Chinese state media report. The 2,000-year-old statue, worth $4.5m (£3.2m), is one of 10 on loan to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia...

Four new 50p coins featuring some of Beatrix Potter's favourite fictional characters are to be released, the Royal Mint has announced. Peter Rabbit, Mrs Tittlemouse and Flopsy Bunny will feature on the coins, which will enter general circulation for a limited time later this year. New 50p...

Daters around the world say that the English accent is the sexiest with those looking for love finding it more attractive than the sound of French, a new survey has revealed... The sexiest accents in the world revealed: It's not the sound of French or Italian that has the woo-factor - but...

The 17.4 million people who voted for Brexit are, according to many Remainers, thick simpletons who "didn't know what they were voting for" and that academics - scientists, economists, lawyers, historians, philosophers etc - all voted to stay in the EU "because they are cleverer". But now, a...