Jamie Oliver wants to repair a 600-year-old bridge over an ancient MOAT around his £6million Essex country mansion Wants to restore 15th century red brick bridge around Spains Hall in Essex Plans show Jamie wants to have the brickwork re-pointed on the bridge He also wants to replace all the modern terracotta drainage spouts By … Read more
Pregnant Elyse Knowles allows boyfriend Josh Barker to use ‘ancient remedy’ to help turn their breech baby before birth By Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:26 GMT, 3 February 2021 | Updated: 04:26 GMT, 3 February 2021 Heavily pregnant Elyse Knowles is preparing to welcome her first child. And after revealing her baby … Read more
Even more than a millennia ago, people have been crazy about their pets: Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered paw prints belonging to a dog embedded in the floor of a house dating some 1,500 years ago. The pooch likely stepped on a terra cotta tile that was drying before being fired in a kiln and … Read more
Scraps of dyed thread unearthed in Isreal that date back 3,000 years match the descriptions of the purple garments worn by royalty like King Solomon in the Bible. Researchers from Isreal found remnants of woven fabric, a tassel and fibres of wool dyed in so-called ‘royal purple’ from a dig site in the Timna Valley. … Read more
Lockdown visitors ruin one of Britain’s most important ancient forests by holding weddings, leaving litter and stripping moss from trees for their hanging baskets Devon County Council say visitors are ‘ruining’ Wistman’s Wood on Dartmoor People have held weddings, left litter and stripped moss from dwarf oak trees Area likely to be left-over from ancient forest … Read more
Ancient Greek inscription of ‘Christ, born of Mary’ that was used to ward off evil eye is found above the doorway of a once-magnificent church built in Israel 1,500 years ago A 1,500 inscription that reads ‘Christ, born of Mary’ has been found in Israel The phrase, written in ancient Greek, was used to ward off … Read more
Spectacular fossil of an eight-foot SHARK that roamed the seas 150 million years ago and was one of the largest of its time is unearthed in Germany The well-preserved skeleton of the Asteracanthus shark were found in Bavaria The almost complete skeleton shows that Asteracanthus was up to 8ft long There were 150 teeth preserved within … Read more
An image of a warty pig painted onto the wall of an Indonesian cave some 45,500 years ago may be the ‘world’s oldest-known figurative artwork’, a study has claimed. Researchers from Australia and Indonesia found the painting of the native wild boar on the rear wall of the Leang Tedongnge cave in the south of … Read more
Shopkeeper Kalina has just brewed tea and offers me a cup. I have stopped to buy water from her village store in Ban Chan, near Luang Prabang in northern Laos. It’s her home, too, built at ‘pig height’ off the ground to stop the animals wandering in, and is also reassuringly surrounded by a border … Read more
The alphabet was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners in ancient Egypt who turned elaborate hieroglyphs into basic letters 4,000 years ago, a study claimed. In 2006, Egyptologist Orly Goldwasser argued that symbols on artefacts from a temple in the Sinai are prototypes of the letters that we use to read and write today. While it had … Read more