Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo (7) celebrates after scoring their opening goal. (AP Photo) Cristiano Ronaldo added yet another remarkable chapter to his glittering career by becoming the oldest goalscorer in FIFA World Cup knockout-stage history as Portugal edged Croatia 2-1 in a dramatic Round of 32 clash on Thursday.At 41 years and 147 days old, the […]
For years, it sat unnoticed among thousands of geological specimens, catalogued and stored without attracting much attention. The fossil had been collected during an expedition to Antarctica in the mid-1980s and then quietly placed within a museum collection, where it remained for nearly four decades.Only recently did a closer examination reveal that the modest-looking specimen […]
Hindustan Zinc Introduces Nightshift for Women at Zinc Smelter Debari, Udaipur All Smelters and Four Mines Now Operate Full-Time with Women Engineers Backed by Robust Safety, Health, and Welfare Measures for a Secure Workplace Udaipur, 01st October 2025: Hindustan Zinc Limited (NSE: HINDZINC), India’s only and the world’s largest integrated zinc producer, has taken another […]
In a cold store in northern Italy, Ötzi the Iceman lies behind controlled glass and steel, kept at a steady chill that mimics the glacier that once sealed him away. He has been there since 1991, when hikers stumbled upon what appeared to be a recent body lodged in the melting ice of the Ötztal […]
Derbyshire cave reveals Britain’s earliest known prehistoric artwork / Image: File For years, they were little more than mysterious scratches on a cave wall.Some believed they were accidental marks. Others thought they were too faint and fragmented to hold any real archaeological significance. Now, after detailed scientific analysis and years of research, experts have confirmed […]
A rare copy of Caedmon’s Hymn is visible in the five lines above the final line of a page from an 8th-century manuscript copy of the Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Image credit: AP) The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marvelling at a medieval book tracked down in a […]
A quiet moment inside a digital archive search has led to something that experts are calling a major literary breakthrough. Researchers studying a medieval manuscript in Rome reportedly stumbled upon what appears to be the oldest surviving English poem. The discovery was not made during an excavation or field study, but through digitised pages viewed […]
In the quiet high desert of Oregon, a small discovery is once again reshaping how we think about early human life in North America. It is not a dramatic artefact or a famous skeleton. It is something far more fragile. A tiny stitched fragment of elk hide, preserved inside a cave for roughly 12,400 years, […]
The Antikythera mechanism has been described as the world’s first analogue computer since it was found in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece in 1901, but until now, we have not known precisely how it was configured inside. The Anticythera mechanism – a corroded chalcographical artefact discovered at a Roman shipwreck in 1901, has […]
A viral X post by Japanese comedian Eiko Kano, written in Japanese, shows a 1992 timestamp It has been 20 years since Jack Dorsey, co-founder of what is now X, posted “just setting up my twttr,” the first message on what would become Twitter. Considered the platform’s very first tweet, it represents the origin of […]
