The machine guns recovered from a fighter plane that crashed in an Irish bog in 1941 were pieced together to create one working weapon, which was later fired by television presenter Dan Snow and a team from the Irish army. “That was the noise that filled the air during the Battle of Britain,” he writes. […]

A small stone painted with regular red and brown spots has been found in southern Germany’s Hohle Fels Cave. Scientists think that the dots were made with the end of a hazel tree branch some 15,000 years ago. “These spots are anything but accidental,”  said Nicholas Conard of Tübingen University. There’s more information on what is […]