Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization announced that it has cut ties with the British Museum over the Cyrus Cylinder. The British Museum had promised to loan the cylinder, said to be the world’s earliest charter of human rights, to the National Museum in Tehran, but delayed sending it when political protests erupted last […]

 A new survey of Stonehenge suggests that the monument was surrounded by two circular hedges 4,000 years ago. There may also have been a shallow mound within the circle of stones. Five crates of whisky and brandy have been retrieved from the Antarctic by a team from New Zealand. The drinks had been left 100 […]