A British couple could have netted themselves more than £35,000 after they found 1,000 rare 400-year-old coins under the floorboards of their home during renovation work. Betty and Robert Fooks were removing the concrete floor of their Dorset home when they stumbled
A woman living in the UK has said she “learned the hard way” about cultural differences after moving from the US to London. Andrea Celeste – who moved to the UK for university – shared the video on TikTok where she discussed
Tikal is perhaps one the best representations of Mayan culture and architecture: a labyrinthine metropolis where buildings still stand today as they do hundreds of years ago. The Maya still exist though none live in their ancestors’ creations. The majority reside in
It sounds like a classic from Jules Verne but scientists truly believe a giant undiscovered ocean might lie more than 400 miles beneath the surface of the Earth. If he was alive today, the 19th century French science fiction writer, who famously
A salon has issued an apology after a furious customer shared its “disgusting” prices that appear to charge extra for children with special needs. Customer Leanne Caffrey, from Sutton, London, shared a picture on Facebook showing the salon’s price chart after taking
Passengers at Heathrow Airport were left stunned as a scorpion stowaway roamed around one of the airport’s terminals. The agitated arachnid was filmed scurrying around suitcases and feet after it is thought it snuck into a passenger’s luggage and made the flight
A wildlife photographer was shocked during a recent up-close encounter with a grizzly bear in the woods. Nate Luebbe was camping in Katmai National Park in the northern Alaska Peninsula with a friend named Cody when the unthinkable happened. Luebbe, 36, was
Archaeologists digging along the shores of the Swedish city of Kalmar struck lucky when they uncovered a hoard of ancient artefacts. A two-year dig in the city’s Old Town was the centre of life in the region from the beginning of the
Though Tutankhamun wasn’t all that famous during his reign, his status was sealed in death. In the thousands of years after his time, the Boy King, as he is now known, became the most famous of all the pharaohs in Ancient Egypt.
The Mayan civilisation dominated a stretch of land called Mesoamerica which today consists of parts of Central and Northern America. Their presence in the region goes back millennia, with scientists having found evidence for settlements in Belize around 1800 BC. While little