French President Emmanuel Macron hailed the “sublime” rebuild of the magnificent 12th-century gothic Notre Dame de Paris cathedral as he toured it before reopening on Friday. Notre Dame de Paris will reopen on December 7th, in time for Christmas, some five years and eight months after it was tragically gutted by fire, burning out the […]
A treasure hunter recently discovered a “time capsule” harking back to Victorian London. While scouring England’s riverbeds for historical coins and artefacts, Jane Eastman – @myordinarytreasure on Instagram – stumbled upon the unexpected find, a green glass bottle trapped in the silt. In a video snippet of her expedition, viewers see Jane raking over the […]
Eco-extremists have doused Stonehenge, the 5,000-year-old Neolithic monument in England with Orange paint on the eve of the Summer Solstice, an important date in the celestial year associated with the stones. Stonehenge was daubed bright orange on Wednesday, as radical environmental activists used their now-familiar tactic of reloading fire extinguishers with paint to attack buildings […]
