This year the pyramid stage acts indicate the diversity of performers at the event nearly 50 years after it started and will include Stomzy, The Killers, The Cure, Janet Jackson, Miley Cyrus, Liam Gallagher and Lauren Hill.
5000 years ago the region now known as Egypt was instead referred to by its ancient people as km.t, often styled today as Kemet meaning ‘the black land’.
Seventy Five years ago on 6th June 1944, the largest amphibious operation ever undertaken in modern warfare occurred when the Allied powers landed 156,000 men in the Normandy region of north-west France.
