Amazing Artefacts: Britain’s earliest medieval prayer beads are made from fish bone

These 2,000 year-old drawings by ancient Egyptian school-children are delightful

Did four different people bury the Viking Age Galloway Hoard?

The famous hoard appears to have been buried in four distinct layers

First Bronze Age chariot burial found in India has decorated wheels

They’re over 4,000 years old and studded with copper triangles

3300 Year Old Cheese Found in Egyptian Tomb

It's claimed to be the oldest solid cheese ever found

Amazing Artefacts: 250,000 Year-Old Hand-Axe Knapped Around a Shell

Ancient toolmakers enjoyed the aesthetics of their work

Amazing Artefacts: Box of ‘Charms’ from Ancient Pompeii

This tiny treasure trove may have been used for fortune telling and to bring good luck

Amazing Artefacts: King Offa’s Gold Dinar

An Anglo-Saxon coin, with an Arabic inscription

The medieval tiles that show the childhood adventures of Jesus Christ

These medieval tiles suggest Jesus really was 'a very naughty boy'

Amazing Artefacts: 5,000 Year Old Crystal Dagger

Crystal skull? Pah. That pales in comparison to what a group of archaeologists have found at a 5,000 year old tomb in southern Spain. Sometimes you meet an artefact that is so striking, so…

Amazing Artefacts: This 14,000 Year Old Toy Might Be The World’s First Animation

The internet has fallen in love with this small bone disc marked with a deer on each side. It was made at least 14,000 years ago and when it spins, it looks like the…

Amazing Artefacts: Minoan Octopus Vase

We love this Minoan Octopus Vase. Made around 1500 BC, it was accidentally smashed by a visitor to the Heraklion Museum. But archaeologists then found out that it appear to have been smashed and…

Amazing Artefacts: The Amber Bear Of Slupsk

Amazing Artefacts: The Hindsgavl Dagger

An exquisite piece of stonecraft from Denmark

Perfectly Preserved Bronze Age Flower Found Inside 3,000 Year Old Treasure Hoard