Dan Snow joins food historian Annie Gray to explore festive food through the ages. Porpoises, beaver tails, boar's head and ...

Huge carved obelisks and stelas in northern Ethiopia were erected by the kings of the Aksum Empire, who ruled the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region for much of the first millennium A.D. The toppled ...

But why are these confectionery canes Christmas symbols? Here’s a bit of Christmas trivia you probably didn’t know: Legend has it they were first invented by a choir master to keep choir boys occupied ...

A sapling grown from the seed of a tree that survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima has been planted at Cornwall Council’s ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...