There’s more uses for a turkey than the centerpiece of your Thanksgiving feast. Researchers believe the flightless fowl held deep significance for ancient Pueblo Indians in the American Southwest, who domesticated the bird but didn’t eat it. Archaeologists at Washington State University examined a 800-year-old feather blanket from southeast Utah, one of the few remaining … Read more
French carpenters raise a wooden truss as they painstakingly rebuild Notre Dame using 800-year-old techniques The team raised a three-ton oak truss by hand in front of the famous landmark The wooden structures are a replica of those consumed in the fire in April 2019 It comes after a decision to replicate the cathedral in … Read more
A council which incurred the wrath of villagers by shutting down their pop-up market has done a u-turn and allowed it to remain open. Earlier this week Charnwood Borough Council told the organisers of the market at the car park of the Free Trade Inn in Sileby, Leicestershire it would have to close as it breached … Read more
The 800-year-old shrine of the murdered 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Thomas Becket, has been brought back to life in a stunning digital reconstruction. A CGI film of the shrine at Canterbury Cathedral uses new evidence to show how it would have likely appeared before its destruction almost 500 years ago in the carnage … Read more