The effigy rested atop Henry's coffin during his funeral in 1509. The head is all that survives after the body was destroyed ...
The effigy head of the founder of the Tudor dynasty is one of the finest examples of its kind to have survived to the present ...
Westminster Abbey is undertaking a new project using the latest 3D technology to scan the funeral effigy head of Henry VII - ...
There is plenty on offer for grown-ups in the Young V&A’s latest exhibition ‘Making Egypt’, but what really is the point of ...
The British Museum has launched the latest annual report of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), which shows a record ...
Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying “God bless You” is the correct response to a sneeze. 1486: Maximillian I ...
You would not have guessed he was knighted twice by the Queen of England, successfully argued cases before the ... enough for them – but yet they can’t avoid the empty tomb. Their conclusions for a ...
The ministry of antiquities said the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II, whose wife, Hatshepsut, took the throne after his ...
Archaeologists in Egypt have found the tomb of King Thutmose II — the first discovery of an ancient royal tomb since King ...
This is the first royal tomb unearthed since Howard Carter's historic discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.