Archaeologists have unearthed an almost 2,400-year-old golden hoard in an ancient Thracian tomb in northern Bulgaria. The treasure was found near the village of Sveshtari, 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of Sofia, Among the artifacts, da…
23 August 2012 TERME DI SATURNIA SPA & GOLF RESORT LAUNCHES ‘VIA CLODIA’ PACKAGE WITH THE MAJESTIC HOTEL, ROME Tuscany’s award-winning Terme di Saturnia Spa & Golf Resort has teamed up with fellow Leading Hotels of the World…
Clearing out a house is not usually the jolliest of events, but Karl Kissner has uncovered a potential goldmine after emptying his late grandfather's attic in Defiance, Ohio. In a dusty box he came across hundreds of baseball cards dating from the ea…
Blasting rock for a new road, a crew of construction workers have found what they believe is a vast collection of dinosaur eggs fossilised in the rock. So far they have uncovered 40 of the egg like objects measuring between 25cm (10 inches) and 1 met…
Turkish daily Hurriyet Daily News (28.12.11) reports on statements by Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who has called against “bellicose rhetoric” in rows with countries backing allegations of Armenian “genocide,&r…
Evidence that Titanosaurs roamed Antarctica has been found by Argentinian scientists. The giant plant eaters, the largest vertebrates that ever lived, have now been found on all the Earth's continents. During the Cretaceous period, 99 to 67 million y…
Desperate times mean desperate measures and that's exactly what a growing number of Greeks are taking in their attempt to get through the difficult financial period they are facing. Treasure hunting used to be the reserve of solitary individuals or d…
The centenary of Delhi's position as the capital of India is being quietly celebrated with an exhibition of the city's history and a food festival. City dwellers see little relevance in the anniversary of the move from Calcutta to Delhi as decreed by…
In April 2012 a team from Secret Compass will mount an expedition retracing the footsteps of a unique chapter in the British Empire’s foray into wildest Africa: The March on Magdala; through the spectacular Amhara Highlands on the edge of the G…
45000 people,half of the total population of Koblenz, were evacuated while 3 Second World War bombs were made safe. Hospital patients and care home residents were amongst those involved in the city's biggest safety mobilisation as bomb disposal exper…