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Researchers with the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP) have announced there's an 80% to 100% chance they have found Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour. HMS Endeavour started life as a coal ship called the Earl of Pembroke…
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed an export bar on the seal of Robert the Bruce to prevent its sale abroad. Robert the Bruce was King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329. He famously led the Scottish to victory over the much larger…
Parts of an ancient Greek text have been discovered in the Austrian National Library describing another Battle of Thermopylae.
Details of the battle were found among several other fragments, all initially recorded by the Athenian writer Dexippus…
In a find that 'could be the discovery of the century', radar scans, prompted by the theories of British Egyptologist Dr Nicholas Reeves, have revealed there could be two secret chambers hidden behind Tutankhamun’s tomb walls. [caption id…
A 'hugely important' Iron Age burial ground has been discovered at a site on Burnby Lane, Pocklington, east Yorkshire.
The burial ground was discovered during excavations for a property development, which has now been halted to allow…
A ring belonging to Joan of Arc was purchased from a London auction house last month by French theme park Puy du Fou. Now it seems it could have been taken out of the country without an export licence, and the British authorities could demand its…
Recent analysis of a copy of England's oldest printed Bible has shed new light on the process of the English Reformation.
The Bible, which was published in 1535 by Henry VIII's own printer, was written in Latin, the standard language of…
Last Friday, 11 March, Guiness World Records confirmed that the world's oldest living man is Holocaust survivor Mr Israel Kristal of Haifa, Israel.
Kristal was born near Zarnow in Poland on 15 September 1903, making him 112 years and 181…
Academic Dorian Gerhold has discovered the true origin of the Great Fire of London.
We all think we know the Great Fire of London started in Thomas Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane, where the alarm was first raised at about 2am on 2nd…
South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk is hoping to clone cave lions after two well-preserved cubs were discovered in the Siberian permafrost last year.
The cubs, named Uyan and Dina, are at least 12,000 years old and are the best preserved of…
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