Big Brother’s first housemate revealed: Antique jewellery dealer and fierce fashionista Sarah Jane Adams, 65, wants to inspire other contestants to live outside their comfort zones By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 08:22 GMT, 14 March 2021 | Updated: 08:22 GMT, 14 March 2021 Sarah Jane Adams may be Big Brother Australia‘s oldest competitor … Read more
The Shapira Scroll, an ancient manuscript first discovered in 1883 and dismissed as fake is ‘actually the oldest known Biblical script’, an expert claims. Jerusalem antiquities dealer Moses Willhelm Shapira told the world of the discovery of 15 manuscript fragments, said to have been found in a cave near the Dead Sea. The paleo-Hebrew script … Read more
The Shapira Scroll, an ancient manuscript first discovered in 1883 and dismissed as fake is ‘actually the oldest known Biblical script’, an expert claims. Jerusalem antiquities dealer Moses Willhelm Shapira told the world of the discovery of 15 manuscript fragments, said to have been found in a cave near the Dead Sea. The paleo-Hebrew script … Read more
Scientists have successfully identified, extracted and analysed the oldest ever DNA from an animal which was not frozen and preserved in permafrost. The 360,000-year-old genetic material came from the bone of a cave bear, the larger and vegetarian relative of polar and brown bears, which died in what is now Georgia during the Middle Pleistocene. … Read more
The world’s oldest DNA is 1.2 million years old and comes from a previously unknown genetic lineage of mammoth, called the Krestovka mammoth, a new study reveals. Researchers analysed genomes from three ancient mammoths, using DNA recovered from mammoth teeth buried in Siberian permafrost. One genome dated back 1.2 million years and has been named the … Read more
Charles claims the crown – as owner of Britain’s oldest fridge: Frigidaire bought by Queen Mother in 1954 is still keeping things cool at Castle of Mey in Scotland Edmund Garrod, of Buckinghamshire, thought to be owner of UK’s oldest fridge But it seems Royal model, bought by Queen Mother in 1954, is few months … Read more
World’s oldest printed Valentine’s Day card reveals woman berating her man for ‘ghosting’ her as long ago as 1797 The 224-year-old correspondence is illustrated with delicate design and portrait It was published on January 12, 1797, by John Fairburn of 146, Minories, London Writer Catherine Mossday writes she has ‘repeatedly requested’ for a Mr Brown By … Read more
Europe’s oldest person survives Covid-19 to celebrate her 117th birthday as French nun insists she ‘wasn’t scared to die’ Lucile Randon, also known as Sister Andre, is turning 117 years old this Thursday She tested positive for COVID-19 last month but has displayed no symptoms Born in 1904, the French nun is the world’s second-oldest … Read more
Grandfather, 70, becomes oldest person to row 3,000 miles solo across the Atlantic Ocean after nearly two months at sea – raising £700,000 for charity Frank Rothwell, 70, from Oldham, oldest person to row solo across the Atlantic Raised more than £648k for Alzheimer’s Research UK in tribute to brother in law Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation … Read more
Etchings found on a 120,000-year-old bone of an extinct giant cow that once roamed Israel are believed to be the oldest symbols made by humans An butchering site was discovered in Israel that dates back 120,000 years Experts found a trove of bone fragments, with one bearing six markings A further analysis reveals it was … Read more