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Here in Britain, seven long months after the EU referendum, our political class is still humming and hawing about Brexit, after two court hearings. And what about the scrapping of the Human Rights Act that we were promised by the Tories years ago? Plenty of voters will wring their hands at...

The remains of three near-complete Roman buildings have been discovered under a city centre park, archaeologists have revealed. Scans using ground-penetrating radar appear to show two large masonry houses and an unusually-shaped third building dating back nearly 2,000 years. Civic leaders...

Britain and the US can once again lead the world together after seizing a historic opportunity to ‘renew’ the special relationship, Theresa May will declare today. On a trip to America, the Prime Minister will say Brexit and the election of Donald Trump have given the two countries a chance...

Tyrannical god-kings, feudal divisions, poisonings, treason – many of our
 long-held beliefs about ancient Egypt are based on misunderstandings 
and skewed interpretations... The truth about ancient Egypt...

Laydees and gennulmen, now we come to the highlight of this year’s glittering Academy Awards ceremony, live from Hollywood — the Oscar for the most ludicrous, sanctimonious, self-regarding, self-promoting, Trump-hating, Brexit-bashing luvvie. The nominations are, in no particular order: Meryl...

Air pollution in London passed levels in Beijing this week, figures have shown, with popular wood burning stoves and a cloud of toxic air from Germany’s industrial heartlands blamed for exacerbating the problem. On Monday London mayor Sadiq Khan issued the highest air pollution alert in...

I was supposed to interview the actor Ewan McGregor today. We’ve met a few times. Once at Soho House in Los Angeles with our families, another time as we disembarked a plane, also in LA, and walked together for 15 minutes to passport control. On both occasions he was friendly and charming. We...

From sexual innuendo to ‘trial’ marriages – the ancient Egyptians were not so different to us when it came to affairs of the heart... Love, sex and marriage in ancient Egypt...

A Roman man living in Northamptonshire had a gruesome ending, as researchers have discovered that his tongue had been cut out. The man's skeleton was discovered in 1991, and now an analysis of the remains shows that the muscle had been replaced by a stone. The reasons for the removal of...

Today, Tutankhamun is ancient Egypt’s most famous pharaoh. But how much do you really know about the boy king? Here, historian Joyce Tyldesley brings you eight lesser-know facts… 8 things you (probably) didn’t know about Tutankhamun...

Archaeologists studying an ancient inscription on a remote Scottish island have been left divided over whether it is a Viking engraving after its letters spelt FURKU.AL Experts cannot make up their minds for certain if it is a modern expletive or a carving over 1,300 years old that has...

A 400-year-old shopping list for 'green fish', pewter spoons and a new frying pan has been discovered under the floorboards of a historic Tudor mansion in Kent. The shopping list and two other letters, dating from 1603, 1622 and 1633, were discovered at Knole House in Sevenoaks by archaeology...

Donald Trump is planning a new deal for Britain this week as Theresa May becomes the first foreign leader to meet him since the inauguration. With hundreds of thousands of people across the world protesting his presidency, Mr Trump’s team was working with Number 10 to finalise plans for White...

Archaeological research at a site in Dumfries and Galloway has suggested it may have been at the heart of a "lost kingdom" from the Dark Ages. Ronan Toolis led the excavation works at Trusty's Hill Fort at Gatehouse of Fleet. It unearthed evidence that it might have been the royal seat of the...

"I wanted to point out, respectfully, that democracy is the Electoral College system that saw Trump turn the map from blue to red. But there were a few million of them. And they had pictures of v aginas. So I decided this was not the time. I thought I heard the women chanting 'Menstrual...

Buried in Thameside mud and only unearthed more than 160 years later, the Victoria Cross found by a lucky treasure hunter had an incredible story to tell. Tobias Neto stumbled on the VC in December while examining the foreshore with his metal detector. With the help of the Museum of...

Alfred the Great’s relationship with the Danes was defined by compromise as well as the power of the sword... How England rode the Viking storm...

President Donald Trump didn't take long to put his stamp on the Oval Office, reinstalling a bust of Winston Churchill that had got the boot under President Obama. The Churchill bust was on view as Trump took some of his first actions as president, signing executive orders and a waiver...

UKIP leader Paul Nuttall will stand in the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election on 23 February, the party has said. A by-election was triggered earlier this month when Labour MP Tristram Hunt quit to become the director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum. The seat is traditionally a safe...

A new book reveals the secrets some of our Victorian ancestors kept under wraps, such as Darwin's beard hiding his eczema, Prime Minister William Gladstone having a missing finger and Tennyson suffering rotten teeth... Darwin's beard hid his eczema, Gladstone had a finger missing and Tennyson...