The Great London [05/17/22] 

  • Great Legacy: Egypt receives ancient stolen limestone relief from UK

    Egypt's embassy in London received a limestone relief that had been stolen from Queen Hatshepsut's temple in Luxor, the Ministry of Antiquities said.The recovered relief [Credit: Egypt Ministry of Antiquities]Shaaban Abdel Gawad, general supervisor of the ministry's antiquities repatriation department, in a statement said that the…

  • Palaeontology: First extensive wildfires occurred significantly later than previously thought

    A study, carried out by Professor Andrew C. Scott of the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London and Professor Sue Rimmer from Southern Illinois University, reveals widespread fire occurred on Earth more than 80 million years after plants first invaded the land.Scanning Electron Micrographs of Fossil C…

  1. Riace Bronzes back home in Reggio Calabria Museum
  2. Artefacts from ‘Andalucía's Pompeii' go on display
  3. Fragment of manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci unearthed in French town library
  4. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus: an ancient Egyptian mind boggler
  5. 'Underground Revolution' features 8,500 years of history in Istanbul