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Flag Fen’s Festival of Archaeology is now in full swing, kicking off a full summer of eventsat the famous Bronze Age site.

Get active outdoors, take in a family show or enjoy the work of famous street artists

Peterborough no longer requires the £13.7m capitalisation direction it had been offered from the government to balance the books this year and is planning

“Stonehenge’s underwater sister” - Seahenge is a 4000-year-old Bronze Age monument found off the coast of England, which has been surrounded by mystery & controversy.

As the third most-consumed metal on the planet, behind iron ore and aluminum, copper is all around us. Found naturally in the Earth’s crust, copper was among the first metals used by early humans, dating back to the 8th century, BC.  Three thousand years later homo sapiens figured out how to smelt copper from its ore, and to alloy it with tin to create bronze. Bronze was useful for tools and weapons, making it one of the most important inventions in the history of civilization. T...