Known as the British-Irish ice sheet, the frozen mass began its relentless march about 33,000 years ago. Around 10,000 years later, the land was covered in ice half a mile thick.

A map (a) showing crannogs in the British Isles and the age distribution (b) for Scottish and Irish crannogs, according to radiocarbon dating. (Image credit: Brown, A.G. et al (2022); Reimer et al ...

Digging History Drought reveals 'ghost gardens,' ancient cemeteries, lost cities across British Isles By James Rogers , Fox News Published July 17, 2018 8:46am EDT | Updated July 18, 2018 9:53am EDT ...

The countryside of the British Isles is dotted with hill forts, earthworks usually on top of hills that were used in the first millennium B.C. by Bronze and Iron Age Britons.

The best place to begin is, logically, with the earliest records of these islands. The first surviving mention of the ...

Life, as they say, goes on. Until one day it doesn't. For ancient societies, without the means to predict natural disasters, destruction could often come suddenly and completely by surprise. Below are ...

IN the University of Gottingen there is apparently the only copy of a map of the British Isles published in 1603 by John Woutneel and engraved by William Kip. It is a large sheet cut into four and ...

Labels written in cuneiform, an ancient text, note each location on the map, according to The British Museum. Interestingly, cartographers may have used some creative license.

The fine-scale genetic structure of the British population. Nature, 2015; 519 (7543): 309 DOI: 10.1038/nature14230 ...