500-year-old gold pendant made for Henry VIII’s daughter’s marriage to sell for £3.5m after find by metal detectorist
A spectacular gold pendant linked to Henry VIII’s marriage to Katharine of Aragon could be saved for the…
Identity of Girl with a Pearl Earring ‘revealed’ after 360 years: Muse is 10-year-old daughter of Johannes Vermeer’s patron, historian argues
For 360 years, her pensive stare has captivated all who have fixed their eyes on hers. But as…
What you’ll find in Southwest Research Institute’s rare books vault
Tucked inside a small climate-controlled vault in Southwest Research Institute’s library are hundreds of books you’d be hard…
Enshittification explains why the internet sucks right now. Here’s how to fix it.
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Horse racing: The historic black-type week nobody planned – Mick On Monday
But from the Saturday just gone through to this Saturday at Ellerslie, there are a remarkable five separate…
No way back this time for Peter Mandelson, Starmer suggests – POLITICO
Asked by journalists this week if he could see a future in front-line politics for Mandelson, Starmer said:…
palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Credit: Katja Heinemann/Aurora/Cavan/Alamy Mark Norell, whose discoveries helped to demonstrate that birds are living dinosaurs, has died aged…
Britain asks the IMF for a loan
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Trump’s Tylenol-and-autism speech will have serious consequences. I should know.
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Fact vs. fiction in Netflix’s new show.
This article contains spoilers for House of Guinness. You can just see the light bulb going on over…
Scientists Finally Uncover the Origin of the Mysterious Bronzetti Figures
Close up of a Nuragic bronzetti, a bronze statuette of circa 10 cm height with the typical horned…
His lab’s ancient DNA studies are rewriting human history — Harvard Gazette
Since 2012, geneticist David Reich and his team of researchers have been studying DNA from living and ancient…