1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (403+ words) Take pedestrianised Ermou Street, the city's main shopping artery that is consistently ranked among the most expensive retail streets in Europe. At first glance, it's all international brands, and is frenetic with hurried commuters and tourists. Yet halfway along, pedestrian…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (601+ words) Timbers believed to be from a historic 17th-century shipwreck have washed up on a UK beach after Storm Chandra. The ship parts, discovered on Studland Beach last month, are thought to be from a section of the Swash Channel wreck,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (422+ words) An ancient tomb dating to 600AD unearthed in southern Mexico has been hailed as the "most significant archaeological discovery in a decade" by the country's president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. The well-preserved 1,400-year-old tomb from the Zapotec culture featured intricate details, including…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (441+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,400 year-old Christian cross on a plaque at an ancient monastery on the Emirati island of Sir Bani Yas. The cross incorporates regional motifs, including a stepped pyramid representing Golgotha, where Christians believe Jesus was crucified, and…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago  (541+ words) The remains of 46 types of mammals, fish and birds, dating back more than 10,000 years have been found in a cave in northern Norway providing the oldest example of an animal community living in the European Arctic region. The discovery, which…...

8+ mon, 4+ day ago  (749+ words) A potentially deadly fungus known as "pharaoh's curse fungus" could offer an unexpected path to fighting cancer, recent research shows. Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania modified molecules from the fungus " which is officially called Aspergillus flavus " to create a…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (675+ words) A 19th century ship that sank nearly 140 years ago has been found "frozen in time" off Britain's coast. Twenty-three crew members died when the SS Nantes sank off the coast of Cornwall in November 1888, but the whereabouts of the wreck have…...

9+ mon, 2+ day ago  (467+ words) A pocket watch belonging to the late British journalist and politician Herbert Ingram is now on display at the Boston Guildhall museum in the U.K. "165 years after it was lost The watch sank in Lake Michigan with the Lady Elgin in…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (620+ words) Northern Ireland's World Heritage Site is being damaged by visitors leaving coins in the cracks of the famous stones. Scores of coins have been left wedged into the cracks of the basalt rock columns of the Giant's Causeway in north…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (264+ words) Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being dredged for a construction project This is the first time fossils of…...