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  1. Extensive Medieval Irish Cemetery Discovered
  2. Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert
  3. Irish brain surgeons in 800 AD saw cancer, TB in 1,000-year-old remains
  4. Shackleton's Whisky
  5. "Lost" Old European civilizations found.
  6. Fire Reveals Medieval Tombstones
  7. Ancient Amazon civilisation laid bare by felled forest
  8. Relic from Cleopatra's Palace
  9. 4,000-year-old flowers found at grave site
  10. Shakespeare a secret Roman Catholic?
  11. Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies
  12. Stonehenge on world's most threatened wonders list due to traffic
  13. Alfred the Great's granddaughter returns to England
  14. Viking settlement unearthed by OPW
  15. Swiss Army Knife -Roman style
  16. Own your very own Auroch!
  17. 16th C Italian murder case reopened
  18. King Tut: Newly Discovered information on the boy king
  19. Battle of Bosworth Site Identified
  20. Alexander the Great coins found
  21. Stolen Peter the Great pendant found in Seattle returns to Russian museum
  22. Centuries-old shipwrecks found in Baltic Sea
  23. 'Line of light' at Hadrian's Wall
  24. Orange Prize 2010
  25. HF on Lost Man Booker Prize Shortlist
  26. Bertie's Love Chair
  27. Maybe the Donner Party weren't cannibals
  28. Townend Book Collection
  29. Noah's Ark found?
  30. Chateau de Guedelon
  31. Congratulations, CW!
  32. Headless Vikings in England
  33. We are Neanderthals?
  34. mystery medieval knight finally revealed with modern-day CSI skills
  35. Anglo-Saxon finds at new Cheltenham academy site
  36. World's Oldest Known Leather Shoe
  37. Aztec discoveries
  38. Diggers find highly desirable 12th century house
  39. It's Never Too Late to Start Writing
  40. Napoleon memorabilia goes on sale in NZ
  41. Did Cleopatra drink poison?
  42. Libraries loaning ebooks
  43. 16th Century Table Has Medici Connection
  44. UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 Roman coins
  45. King Arthur's round table
  46. 18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site
  47. Is this UK's oldest home?
  48. Excavating scene of Darnley's Murder
  49. Medieval pathways are tracked down on Purbeck heath
  50. Yale team excavates a 3,500-year-old trading settlement in Egypt
  51. History in the news round up
  52. Bibliotheca Alexandria
  53. Rare Roman suit of armour found at Caerleon dig
  54. Sad find: a likely murder on Hadrian's Wall
  55. New information about the sinking of the Titanic?
  56. Long-Sought Viking Settlement Found
  57. more books for Australia
  58. Puritan Milton's bawdy poem?
  59. Surprise Visit
  60. iPad and archaeology
  61. Cause of the big plague epidemic of Middle Ages identified
  62. BBC History Magazine
  63. Blood of King Louis XVI may be hidden inside gourd
  64. Was Henry Vlll's first wife anorexic? Catherine of Aragon's secret problem
  65. Relics from Richard II's tomb
  66. An apple engineer builds the Antikythera Mechanism out of legos!
  67. Mummified head is skull of Henri IV, say historians
  68. Ancient Roman city found in Turkey
  69. Celtic noblewoman's grave discovered in Germany
  70. Nazi campaign against a Finnish dog
  71. Robert Burns letter found at Floors Castle
  72. Henry VIII mural found during renovation of house
  73. The Mona Lisa model was male?
  74. Eqyptian museum did lose some artifacts
  75. Roman Child's Footprints Found By Road
  76. Rewriting the ancient history of Stonehenge
  77. Daphne du Maurier stories found
  78. Archaeology team tells Queen, "We want to dig up Henry VIII"
  79. America's last WWI veteran, dies aged 110
  80. "Blood-sweating" horses
  81. Did Archaeologists Uncover Blackbeard's Treasure?
  82. Britain's Celtic road builders
  83. Atlantis found?
  84. The Inspiration for 'Oliver Twist' Discovered
  85. Man Booker International 2011 finalists
  86. Rare Civil War Photos
  87. Dundee academics reconstruct Viking woman's face
  88. Dancing Mania
  89. Tiny church finds original King James Bible
  90. 18th Century Hackney Cab map found in London attic
  91. Rare photos of Marilyn Monroe
  92. Greenland cold snap linked to Viking disappearance
  93. 10 strange ways people died in Tudor England
  94. Bad call by Roman Referee
  95. Indian temple treasure rediscovered
  96. Death of Earl of Harewood, cousin to Elizabeth II
  97. Stolen Caligula statue unveiled
  98. Man Booker 2011 longlist announced
  99. 2011 Bulwer-Lytton awards for bad writing
  100. Modern gladiators battle for Roman tourist trade
  101. Civil war POW Camp found
  102. King Arthur's Round Table Found
  103. Unique Roman gladiator school unveiled in Austria
  104. Medieval "witches' graveyard" uncovered in Tuscany
  105. History of Map Monsters
  106. Inscriptions found at Nevern Castle
  107. Van Gogh Murdered?
  108. Viking chieftain's burial ship excavated
  109. And the Shakespeare debate rages on . . .
  110. Wreck found off Nagasaki believed to be 13th-century Mongol ship
  111. Was Jane Austen poisoned?
  112. Early Bronze Age relics discovered at Dartmoor
  113. Archaeologists uncover Pictish seat of power
  114. Project Eliseg: Digging for Early Medieval Myths
  115. Photos of Tower Bridge being constructed found in skip
  116. British library puts 300 years of history online
  117. 'Witch's cottage' unearthed near Pendle Hill, Lancashire
  118. Archaeologists unearth 7th-century house in Yorkshire Dales
  119. Bad Sex in Fiction winner announced
  120. King Edward VIII's coronation
  121. Charlotte Brontė manuscript sold for £690,000
  122. Found Coins May Unveil a Lost Viking King
  123. Medieval Knights May Have Had PTSD
  124. Orcadian temple predates Stonehenge by 500 years
  125. Roman brothel token found in London
  126. Historian claims Henry VIII had secret daughter
  127. Bloomers and "bicycle face"
  128. Roman cavalry helmet found in Iron Age shrine
  129. Archaeologists find tomb of female singer in Valley of Kings
  130. Viking mass grave linked to elite killers of the medieval world