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Taken from India, 39 Naga ancestors return after 100 years: Oxford museum transfers skulls taken by British officials during colonial ruleOxford's Pitt Rivers Museum has formally handed over the remains of 39 Naga ancestors, mostly skulls collected during British colonial rule...- A battered Egyptian pot sat in a Cornwall garage after a 1950s taxi fare; decades later, its tiny label helped reconstruct a lost 19th-century excavationA family in Cornwall discovered a pot associated with an excavation led by Flinders Petrie in ancient Egypt. The pot was originally given t...
- In 2017–18, 2,500 volunteers counted tiny pores on ginkgo leaves to study the ancient atmosphere; 24,000 classifications helped process the imagesGinkgo trees, which have existed for millions of years, provide valuable information on historical carbon dioxide levels. Researchers emplo...
- An ancient Egyptian pot sat unnoticed in a Cornwall garage for years; when researchers examined it, its label helped solve a century-old archaeological mysteryAn ancient Egyptian pot discovered in a Cornwall garage has helped researchers connect a forgotten family possession with the archaeologica...
- Machinist Edwin Budding patented a lawnmower in 1830; rotating blades used to finish woolen cloth gave him the mechanism for cutting grass evenlyIn 1830, Edwin Budding revolutionized lawn care by inventing the lawn mower, a clever adaptation of a machine designed for trimming cloth. ...
- In 1843, a 27-year-old woman wrote first-ever computer program. Mentored by Charles Babbage, her work still inspires modern technology nearly 200 years laterAda Lovelace, a visionary ahead of her time, imagined programmable machines long before electronic computers came into being. In 1843, she ...
- In 1940, scientists had no fermentation tanks, so penicillin was grown in hundreds of ceramic vessels modeled on hospital bedpans; the improvised system helped turn Fleming’s discovery into a mass-produced medicineIn 1940, scientists working to develop penicillin faced a major obstacle: they had discovered a potentially lifesaving medicine but lacked ...
- A 4-year-old’s “toy treasure hunt” ended with the discovery of a real medieval gold pendantA young boy named James Hyatt made a remarkable discovery in 2009. While metal detecting with his father in Hockley, Essex, he unearthed a ...
- How we came to be: Scientists get first look at the evolution of early complex animalsNew fossils discovered in China’s Yunnan province show that complex animal life began millions of years earlier than previously thought, du...
- Oxford University to return 500-yr-old bronze statue of a Tamil saint to IndiaThe 60 cm-tall statue of Saint Tirumankai Alvar was acquired by the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford from Sotheby's auction hou...
- Oxford University to return stolen 500-year-old bronze idol to IndiaOxford University has agreed to return a 500-year-old bronze idol of Saint Tirumankai Alvar, believed to be stolen from a Tamil Nadu temple...
- Real-life Indiana Jones passes away at 94Schuyler Jones, a globe-trotting American anthropologist and adventurer whose exploits drew comparisons to iconic movie character Indiana J...
- UK police charges four men for stealing golden toilet worth £4.8 million Blenheim PalaceIn September 2019, the 18-carat toilet was stolen from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. The four individuals involved in the incident have b...
- Vogue's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour felicitated by King CharlesWintour, who has been editor of Vogue U.S. since 1988, is one of the most powerful people in the fashion world and a philanthropist who has...
- Why Oxford University's museum is removing the shrunken heads
- Thieves take advantage of coronavirus pandemic to steal a Van Gogh paintingVan Gogh's 'The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884' was stolen in a raid on a Dutch museum.
- Thieves use coronavirus shutdown to steal Van Gogh paintingThieves broke into the Singer Laren museum (a small museum east of Amsterdam) in the middle of the night (around 3:15 am), smashed a glass ...
- India requests UK museum at Oxford for ancient idol stolen from Tamil Nadu templeThe statue of Saint Tirumankai Alvar was acquired by the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford from Sotheby''s auction house in 1967...
- Oxford celebrates 400 years of links with IndiaThe University of Oxford, for the first time, will celebrate an 'Oxford-India Day' tomorrow by bringing together scholars and select group ...
- Ancient tigers migrated along the 'Silk Road'DNA from an extinct sub-species of tiger has revealed that the ancestors of modern tigers migrated through the heart of China, along what w...
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