Derinkuyu, a subterranean city in Turkey that stretches 280 feet below Earth's surface, was rediscovered by a man looking for his lost chickens.
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As cool as anything Indiana Jones found
The centuries-old texts were erased, and then written over, by monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt
Alas, we can no longer hibernate
This is one winter I’d like to sleep through.
Seasonal damage in bone fossils in Spain suggest Neanderthals and their predecessors followed the same strategy as cave bears
Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you die
Or, in the case of the Pompeians, today, before the meal is over.
The chef Heston Blumenthal?s latest exploration of historical appetites is a menu inspired by the final meals prepared in the doomed Roman city.