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An incredible discovery is made in the Chinese countryside
In July 1575, Robert Dudley enlisted mythological figures to convince Elizabeth I to wed him. Exactly 450 years later, artist Lindsey Mendick reveals how and why she reinterpreted their encounter in her installation for Kenilworth Castle
For 5000 years a boulder stood unremarked in a Dorset valley, until one summer day an archaeologist noticed something curious about it...
Paris, 1777-1782
From topless staddle stones outperforming complete ones to two versions of the same desk selling on the same day 212 miles apart, bizarre occurrences are par for the course at contents sales
“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...
There’s nothing quite like a good horror story from the distant past to put a shiver down the spine. And one of Britain’s most horrifying episodes from the Roman era was revealed in Dorset in 1936 wit