In a BBC archive clip, archaeologist Howard Carter describes the moment on 12 February 1924 when he and his team became the first people in 3,300 years to meet the Egyptian boy king.

Her experiments in that bedroom laboratory on chicken embryos led to the discovery of nerve cell death. Whilst working in the ...

Dramatising the life of Jesus was a first for television drama, but BBC producers had to tread carefully around some ...

In September 1991, two German hikers found a 5,000-year-old mummy in a glacier ...

It was a factory renowned for making boiled sweets, toffees and chocolate. But in 1949, Needler's in Hull was the location ...

When the Artemis mission lands on the Moon, its crew will have to grapple with a challenging environment and extreme ...

In May 2002, former US President Jimmy Carter paid a controversial visit to Cuba, which had been subject to a US trade embargo for more than 40 years.

Following the Beatles final concert tour, George Harrison travelled to India in 1967 to learn sitar under the renowned musician Ravi Shankar. Fleeing Beatlemania he travelled in disguise to Mumbai and ...

Norwich City fans described their 2-1 win over league leaders Coventry as well deserved and amazing. They moved four points ...

On 28 January 1986, a space shuttle launch went wrong. Six astronauts and a teacher, Christa McAuliffe, were killed. In 1984, US President Ronald Reagan had announced that Nasa would search for a ...

Birmingham has long been a hub for musical innovation, credited as the birthplace of heavy metal, and with roots in genres as diverse as Bhangra, rap and reggae sound systems. Now, music-lovers are ...

In 2003, skiing history was made when Croatian siblings Janica and Ivica Kostelić became the first sister-brother duo to win ...