Thousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea ... lived between 6,000 and more than 10,000 years ago. All carried local hunter-gatherer ancestry, similar to that of ancient ...

A BBC Scotland journalist has received a Police Scotland bravery award after rescuing a woman from the sea in Orkney. Linda Sinclair, who has also been recognised by the Royal Humane Society, recalls ...

For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer. For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans ...

Voropaev - Russia's consul general in the Red Sea resort - was speaking to Tass, the state-owned Russian news agency. BBC reporters in Egypt say six people are feared dead. Earlier, the Russian ...