20 amazing ancient burials

Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture

With their potent blend of wild looks and mystery, Britain’s ancient sites have an enduring magnetism–and there are far more of them than you might imagine, says Tom Howells

Different ways of dying across the British Isles

For 5000 years a boulder stood unremarked in a Dorset valley, until one summer day an archaeologist noticed something curious about it...

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

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