The tomb of Thutmose II, the last king’s tomb to be found from the 18th Egyptian dynasty, has been located in the Western ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

The story of Scotland's famous clans has always captured the imagination of those with a Scottish connection, and now more ...

A new class of landlords in Scotland is cultivating forests of native trees and monoculture conifer plantations with an eye ...

From the British Isles to the Norwegian Fjords and Iceland’s rugged coast, Seabourn’s newest Northern Europe itineraries ...

Our emblematic tree is in short supply and in danger of running out – is the idea of homegrown hardwood sunk forever?

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

Take a walk back in time on a visit to Fife, home to towering cathedrals, ancient abbeys and the world’s oldest golf course.

Time and space shifting: author David Cairns on the difficulties of writing detailed historical fiction set in Scotland from Australia.

New DNA research uncovers how ancient sheep migrations shaped farming, revealing key domestication and breeding traits over 12,000 years.