The bread was charred and buried under the entrance of a dwelling built around 3,300BC. A piece had been torn off, before the bread was burnt, then buried when the house was built.

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts – dating back to around 300BC, during the Warring States Period – are considered the oldest ancient classics ever found in China. They are more than a century ...

The weapons used were possibly maces or carved stone balls at a time when a ‘New World Order’ of Neolithic society was taking root in Orkney from around 3,300BC.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed rare carvings on an ancient Mayan ball court depicting a powerful snake-themed dynasty. Excavators have uncovered three stucco reliefs that depict scenes of the Kaanu ...

They disappeared from Britain around 1,300bc, later becoming globally extinct after the last remaining aurochs died in 1627 in Poland.

In 1858, a British expedition ransacked the Greek Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, in Bodrum, Turkey, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, built c. 300BC.

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby (around 900BC-300BC), a jade statuette at the centre of Olmec civilisation studies since the ...

A new alert is in place for Lindos, a town popular with tourists and famed for its hilltop acropolis which has its roots back as far as 300BC, as well as the villages of Massari, Malonas, Charaki.

An equally humble 300BC Vietnamese bowl, whose raw, undecorated, irregular form Barkley says demonstrates “clay as performance … full of rude energy”. Meanwhile, he reveals his passions in ...

Formerly called the Museum of Childhood, Young V&A is located in Bethnal Green, east London, within a Grade II-listed building that is over 150 years old and houses objects sourced from 2,300BC to ...

Frances Christie analysed a Notre-Dame in Paris by Sir Claude Francis Barry, while John Foster valued a Greek plate depicting a woman’s face that dates back to around 300BC. Follow Birmingham Live: ...