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Computer analysis of the 15th century Voynich manuscript, considered one of the world’s most mysterious, shows it contains a “secret message”.
Archaeologists claim to have found an ancient Maya city that has been lost to civilisation for centuries in the jungles of eastern Mexico.
The scenes of British film pioneer Clause Frisse-Greene film about London in 1927 are both eerily familiar and yet so different to the modern, bustling city in which we live. Frisse-Greene produced some of the earliest known colour footage of London making use of the colour process his father William, a cinematographer, was experimenting with.
The current conflict between the M23 rebels and the Congolese army can only be understood with reference to the genesis of conflicts in this region of great lakes over the last fifty years.