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Boffins Discover New 20-Million-Year-Old Ant Species Encased In Amber

September 9, 2022September 17, 2022 William McGee Africa, Amber, Ant, Astonished, Block, Boffins, Discover, Discovered, Encased, France, Germany, Miocene, Poland, Ponerinae, Preserved, Remarkable, Scanning, Scientists, Species, Specimen, Subfamily, Tomography, Unknown

Astonished scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of ant after scanning a 20-million-year-old block of amber. Researchers in Germany,

Accidents Europe General News

Pretty Holidaymaker Aged 27 Dies In France After Being Hit By Falling Shutter

August 19, 2022August 19, 2022 Joseph Golder Ambulance, Briancon, Dies, Falling, France, Friend, Grande Rue, Historic, Hit, Holiday, Holidaymaker, Hospital, Italian, Media, Medical, Pretty, Restaurant, Shutter, Street, Town Centre, Turin

A 27-year-old Italian holidaymaker has been killed in France after she was hit by a falling shutter while going to

Archaeology Europe General News

Prehistoric Farmers Were Bugged By Insects And Mice, Says Study

July 19, 2022July 19, 2022 Thomas Hochwarter Abandoned, Archaeologists, Attracted, Basel, Bones, Bugged, Catch, Farmers, Feasting, Fighting, France, Insects, International, Mice, Population, Prehistoric, Revealed, Scientist, Sediment, Stocked, Stone Age, Study, Supplies, Surprised, Team, Wells, Wood Mice

Stone Age farmers in southern France were fighting mice and insects feasting on their supplies 4,000 years ago, a new

General News History Turkey

Vials With Mysterious Serum Found At Gallipoli Battle Site

March 9, 2022March 8, 2022 Feza Uzay Battle, Britain, Campaign, Empire, Entente, Found, France, Gallipoli, Gelibolu, Glass, Independence, Military, Mysterious, Ottoman, Peninsula, Powers, Restoration, Russia, Serum, Site, Turkey, Vials, Victory, War, Work, World War I

Two mysterious 112-year-old glass vials have been found during restoration work in the area where the Gallipoli campaign took place.

Crime Europe General News

Hapless Dad At Wits End Trying To Get Kids Off Devices With Scrambler Accidentally Shuts Off Internet For Whole Town

March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 Joseph Golder Accidentally, Addicted, Block, Children, Configured, Connectivity, Dad, Devices, Exasperated, Father, France, Goal, Hapless, Home, Internet, Kids, Messanges, Midnigh, Night, Off, Prosecuted, Resorted, Scrambler, Shuts Off, Stop, Town, Trying

An exasperated father who had resorted to using a scrambler to try to get his children off their devices is

Archaeology Europe General News

Dinosaur Remains Believed To Be Europes Most Complete Titanosaur Discovered Near Pyrenees

February 24, 2022February 23, 2022 Joseph Golder Believed, Border, Catalan, Complete, Deemed, Dinosaur, Discovered, Europe, Excavation, Experts, Findings, Fossilised, France, Herbivorous, Hitherto, Institute, Mountain, Natural, Palaeontology, Pyrenees, Remains, Skeleton, Species, Titanosaur, Uncovered, Unknown

A new species of dinosaur has been discovered near the Pyrenees and its fossilised remains have been deemed to be

Archaeology Europe General News

Archaeologists Discover Decapitated Horse Next To Its Rider In Elite Merovingian Warrior Cemetery

January 5, 2022January 4, 2022 Joseph Golder Archaeologists, Buried, Cemetery, Century, Decapitated, Discover, Dynasty, Elite, Empire, France, Frankish, Gaulish, Germany, Graves, Horse, Jewellery, Kingdom, Merovingian, Middle, Nobles, Rider, Romans, RUled, Switzerland, Team, Territory, Warrior, Weapons

A team of archaeologists has discovered a decapitated horse next to its rider, as well as a trove of jewellery

Europe General News History

Stolen Relic Of Saint Recovered After Disappearing In Theft In Germany Four Years Ago

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 Joseph Golder Alerted, Auction, Authorities, Believed, Belonging, Bone, Chapel, Collector, Confessional, Contain, Disappeared, Disappearing, Eagle-Eyed, France, Germany, Professor, Recognised, Recovered, Relic, Remembering, Saint, Stolen, Theft, This Stolen Relic

This stolen relic, believed to contain a bone belonging to a saint who died in 1597, that disappeared from a

Europe General News Royalty

French Queen Marie Antoinettes Historic Diamonds Fetch Over GBP 6 Million At Christies Auction

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 Peter Barker Auction, Belonged, Bracelets, Chest, Christies, Diamonds, Director, During, Fetch, France, French, French Revolution, Hidden, Historic, Imprisoned, Jewellery, Marie Antoinette, million, Pair, Queen, Smuggled, Sold, Switzerland

A pair of diamond bracelets that once belonged to France’s last queen, Marie Antoinette, have sold at a Christie’s auction

General News History North America And Caribbean

Sword Used By Napoleon Bonaparte To Seize Control Of France To Be Auctioned For Millions Of Dollars

November 5, 2021November 5, 2021 Joseph Golder Auctioned, Carriage Pistols, Chased, Control, Death, Dollars, Emperor, France, Government, Honour, Millions, Napoleon Bonaparte, Newsflash, Office, Pocket Pistols, Revolutionary, Rifled Carbine, Seize, Sword

This sword used by Napoleon Bonaparte to seize control of France when he chased the revolutionary government out of office,

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