A man hunting for mushrooms found came away with more than just a bunch of fungus – he discovered two rare Bronze Age weapons. Roman Novák was foraging for fungi after a rainstorm in Jesenick, a small town about 150 miles from Prague, when he noticed a piece of metal jutting out of the ground. … Read more
Fresh analysis of Europe’s earliest known battle has thrown up the possibility the 1,400 people who died at the site, in Germany’s Tollense Valley, were not warriors engaged in a brutal melee, but ambushed merchants who were ruthlessly slain. Human remains at the site in North East Germany, near today’s border with Poland and 80 … Read more
Spanish triathlete shows incredible sportsmanship by STOPPING on finish line to let British rival who took a wrong turn at the end to cross first and win the bronze medal Video shows Diego Méntrida stopping at the finish line to let British athlete pass James Teagle was on track to place third but ran off … Read more
Spanish triathlete shows incredible sportsmanship by STOPPING on finish line to let British rival who took a wrong turn at the end to cross first and win the bronze medal Video shows Diego Méntrida stopping at the finish line to let British athlete pass James Teagle was on track to place third but ran off … Read more
Bronze statue of Melania Trump is unveiled in her hometown in Slovenia to replace the wooden version that was set on fire New bronze sculpture representing the first lady was unveiled on Tuesday near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia It’s a replica of wooden sculpture that was torched by arsonists on July 4 Rough figure … Read more
A five-year-old girl is among 17 migrants to arrive in Dover on the 14th consecutive day of Channel crossings as smugglers offer ‘gold, silver and bronze’ packages to desperate passengers. Yesterday 112 migrants arrived at Kent’s shores, bringing the total for this month so far up to at least 1,232 – smashing July’s record 1,118 … Read more
Another 112 refugees crossed the Channel yesterday as it was revealed smuggler gangs are offering migrants ‘gold, silver and bronze’ package deals to cross the Channel – with the cheapest costing less than £1000. Traffickers take advantage of vulnerable asylum seekers desperately fleeing their homelands by offering the paid-for arrangement at a camp in Calais. … Read more
Police arrived at the home of Oxford-educated Madeline Odent this evening after she tweeted a guide on how to destroy bronze statues in the wake of recent Black Lives Matters protests. Museum curator Madeline Odent wrote a series of tweets last night on how to destroy bronze statues such as the one of Edward Colston … Read more
Police arrived at the home of Oxford-educated Madeline Odent this evening after she tweeted a guide on how to destroy bronze statues in the wake of recent Black Lives Matters protests. Museum curator Madeline Odent wrote a series of tweets last night on how to destroy bronze statues such as the one of Edward Colston … Read more
An Oxford-educated museum curator has provoked outrage by sharing expert advice on how to dissolve bronze statues using corrosive chemicals in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests. Madeline Odent, curator of Royston Museum in Hertfordshire, sent a series of tweets last night to her 5,164 followers, which were then shared thousands of times. … Read more