Why I swapped France for this beautiful English county to celebrate my milestone birthday
As Mary Novakovich was heading towards her 60th birthday, she longed for the southern French getaway she had for her 40th – ...
Gladiator II isn’t a masterpiece but you’ll like Ridley Scott’s sequel anyway
Gladiator II, a sequel that debuts nearly a quarter of a century after the original, is a bold, truly epic return to where ...
Why the case of Ireland’s missing crown jewels remains unsolved after more than a century
Stored in a castle in the most guarded corners of Dublin, the jewels were taken from a locked strongbox that wasn’t forced ...
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These 12,000-year-old Natufian artifacts may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.
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Electrician finds frescoes behind false ceiling in Rome
Rosy-cheeked cherubs surrounded by blues, reds and golds have lost none of their brilliance in 17th-century frescoes ...
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John Malkovich’s ‘Arms and the Man’ stirs nationalist fury in Bulgaria over perceived mockery of history
A 19th-century play directed by US actor John Malkovich has enraged nationalists in Bulgaria who call it an insult to the ...
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Seven crowd-free highlights of East Sussex, from a local who knows
The original Barcombe surrounds pretty St Mary’s Church, Barcombe Cross is where villagers fled to escape the Black Death and ...