A historic cathedral city was home to some of Britain's earliest humans more than half a million years before writer Geoffrey Chaucer immortalized it in verse in his Canterbury Tales.

Happisburgh, Norfolk is a fairly unassuming village on the English coast. Highlights include a pretty church and Britain’s only independently operated lighthouse. The entire lot might imminently ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

Early humans are known to have been present in Britain from as early as 840,000 – and potentially 950,000 – years ago, but these early visits were fleeting.

“These finds are by far the earliest known evidence of humans in Britain, dating at least 1,00,000 years earlier than previous discoveries,” said Chris Stringer, a specialist in human origins ...

Ancient humans braved the cold in Britain over 800,000 years ago to create the first known settlement in northern Europe, according to researchers.

The Canterbury suburbs were home to some of Britain’s earliest humans, new discoveries have revealed. The research confirms that Homo heidelbergensis, an ancestor of Neanderthals, occupied ...

Researchers have discovered stone tools in Norfolk, UK, that suggest that early humans arrived in Britain nearly a million years ago - or even earlier. The find, published in the journal Nature ...

Early humans are known to have been present in Britain from as early as 840,000 — and potentially 950,000 — years ago, but these early visits were fleeting.

Researchers discover stone tools in Norfolk that suggest humans arrived in Britain nearly a million years ago.