There has been a significant rise in the number of valuable artefacts found by amateur treasure hunters in Britain.
The British Museum says the number of finds containing gold and silver rose by 12.6% to 749 in the…
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Reducing herds with infected fallow deer ‘may play a role in lowering risks to cattle’, say government scientific advisers.
Wild deer herds with high levels of TB are likely to be culled more rigorously to minimise the risk of cattle…
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Lasting some 11 centuries from the foundation of the city of Constantinople, today’s Istanbul, on the site of the Greek city of Byzantium by the Roman emperor Constantine in 330 CE to its final defeat at the hands of the…
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Nothing is as central to the way the British view themselves as the telling and retelling of their gallant fight against the Nazis. Perhaps the colossal figure of Winston Churchill is taken for granted now, his boozy final years remembered…
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Germany declined to comment on Saturday on reports that three Germans arrested on suspicion of throwing explosives at an EU office in Kosovo were intelligence officers.
The explosive charge was thrown on Nov. 14 at the International Civilian Office (ICO),…
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Cloaked by time’s leafy shroud, the prehistoric settlement of Gaer Fawr lies all but invisible beneath a forest in the lush Welsh countryside. Commanded by warrior chiefs who loomed over the everyday lives of their people, the massive Iron Age…
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Sofia – Archaeologists are working on a Thracian bronze chariot, which they unearthed near the village of Karanovo in southeastern Bulgaria. More than 10,000 Thracian burial mounds are scattered across central and southeastern Bulgaria, which is considered to have been…
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WHENEVER the BBC is overtaken by scandal, events tend to follow a wearingly familiar pattern.
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