Pytheas of Massalia, an ancient Greek geographer, was the first Mediterranean person to reach Great Britain and the Arctic Circle.

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A new ancient-DNA study suggests the Bronze Age people who transformed Britain around 2400 BC didn’t arrive from Iberia, as older narratives of the “Bell Beaker” story sometimes implied. Instead, ...

Neil Oliver tells the epic story of how Britain and its people came to be over thousands of years of ancient history, the beginnings of our world forged in ice, stone, and bronze.

New archaeological research is revealing that, more than a thousand years before Britain became part of the Roman Empire, it was part of an extraordinary Mediterranean-based trading network.

Neil Oliver investigates the discovery of a 5,000-year-old temple in Orkney. Built 500 years before Stonehenge, the temple has triggered new thoughts about the beliefs of Neolithic people, turning the ...

Join bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears in the third and final episode of our Ancient Britain series, as he explores the relics of Iron Age Britain. On his journey, Ray visits the magnificent ...