Princess Irene of Greece, who has died aged 83, was probably the first European royal to perform as a professional pianist In the United States; she also appeared at the Royal Festival Hall in London ...

Discover the fascinating history of Andover’s Eight Bells Inn, its landlords, railway threats, and transformation into the Station Hotel.

The term “multitasking” can refer to a wide range of things. It can be truly simultaneous, like texting or answering emails ...

Waterloo Road returns tonight for another episode in it's dramatic 17th season and we've got all the details on the cast, both new and returning. The new season returned last week with deputy Darius ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

The day is nearly upon us - Waterloo Road is back on the small screen! Though we'll get some big new storylines, the major news for the 17th season is that Denise Welch will reprise her role as Steph ...

Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a ...

Off the coast of Marseille, National Geographic Explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau hauled up thousands of ancient clay vessels—and showed what fantastic discoveries modern scuba gear made possible. This ...

The dig might have uncovered some of the earliest victims of the Black Death, and other tantalizing clues about medieval life in the citadel. The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins continued to make news. By Franz Lidz Neanderthals, who flourished across ...

Restoration efforts at the Church of Saint Philibert in France led to the discovery of a forgotten staircase and a 400-year-old burial vault. The archaeological finds didn’t stop there, with experts ...

The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient languages. During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered ...