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Technology and sport have a fairly motley relationship already . lumber on to Twitter during a soccer match ( or football as it ’s properly known * ) and as well as people tweeting ambiguous statements like " YESSS " and " oh no mate " to about 20,000 incomprehensible retweets , you ’ll in all likelihood see a lot of ill about the TV assistant reader ( VAR ) and occasionally destination - bank line technology not doing its task ....

Despite a law requiring people to report any archaeological discoveries on their property, the urn sat unreported for 50 years before its new owners finally alerted local officials. Concord National MuseumThe Roman urn find in a garden near Venice , with its raddled , abraded inscription on the front . A massive Roman urn once used to hold the ashes of the dead after cremation was recover 50 years after a family in northern Italy found it on their property — because they never reported finding it ....

Divers off the coast of Taiwan have filmed a rare meeting with a giant oarfish , a fish seen so rarely there are caption that their appearance precede major quake . Oarfish generally live at depths of around200 meters(656 feet ) , though they have been found at depths of 1,000 meters ( 3,280 metrical unit ) , crap it uncommon for them to cross path with humans . Diving instructor Wang Cheng - ru captured the footage of one of their journeys closer to the surface ....

When you purchase through links on our website , we may earn an affiliate perpetration . Here ’s how it works . Chicago Bears encompassing receiver Brandon Marshall says he ’s heard of NFL players using a surprising drug as an on - the - field performance enhancer : Viagra . " … it is such a militant league , guys try anything just to get that edge , " Marshall aver , via Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune , when ask about an apparent increase in NFL suspensions related to the MBD drug Adderall ....

The TV version of Neil Gaiman ’s American Gods has added another wiz to its roster : Gillian Anderson . This is n’t the most shocking news ever , since Anderson antecedently worked with American Gods executive manufacturer Bryan Fuller on the belated , great Hannibal . But it is amazing news , because GILLAN ANDERSON ! agree to Variety , Anderson will play a key use in the Starz serial — and it sound like a minute of a divergence for the actress :...

When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . The oldest - known representation of a pharaoh are carve on rock near the Nile River in southerly Egypt , researcher report . The sculpture were first observe and put down in the 1890s , but only rediscover in 2008 . In them , a white - crown figure travels in ceremonial progression and on reaping hook - shaped boats , perhaps representing an former tax - collectingtour of Egypt ....

To celebrateour fresh " Team Edvard " shirt , we ’re re - running some of our favourite vampire stories this calendar week . Here ’s Miss Cellania ’s round - up of notable lamia from 2007 . Vlad the Impaler Vlad Tepes III , also known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad the Impaler , was the prince of Wallachia ( a region of Romania ) in the 15th century ....

When you purchase through links on our site , we may clear an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it work . For four calendar month out of every year in the ancient Mayan city ofTikal , the sky dried up and no rainfall fell . Nevertheless , this metropolis in what is now Guatemala became a bustling hub of as many as 80,000 house physician by A.D. 700 . Now , research worker have found that the occupant of Tikal hung on to their refinement for more than 1,000 years thanks to a astonishingly sustainable organization of water delivery ....

As you may have observe , it’squite hot out there . Although more far-famed for rain than ray , the UK has not been spared theextreme effectsof the late heatwave – but for some , the unprecedented raging and dry spell has provided a new chance to tie with their local history . late pic of the Welsh countryside taken for the impressively - namedRoyal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales(RCAHMW ) have bring out long - lose British settlements , now turning up as craw marks in the parch athletic field and ripening crops ....

Mexican jumping beans are seed pod that are inhabited by the larvae of a humble moth . Due to the midget larvae flexing and flickering around inside the pod , the seed chute around . This strange phenomenon is often used as a novelty joke or magic joke , but it ’s a perfectly natural part of the bugs ' biography oscillation – and may even help them to last the coarse surround they get hold themselves in ....

You deserve a holiday . A fiddling R&R is always welcome , and what better place to rest than in a inundate chamber with 360 - stage views of shark - filled waters?The Verge reportsthat Airbnb is fall in away a one - night stay inside a shark army tank at an aquarium in Paris as a part of its Night At event series . All you need to do to enter the contest is drop a line a short essay about yourself and why you should be chosen ....

There has been an influx of facial reconstructions of later , offering us a coup d’oeil into the past and showing that ( blow ! ) people go back in the olden times looked not that dissimilar to us . There was the17th - C Scots soldier , theEgyptian mummy , theearly Europeans , thePeruvian pouf , Julius Caesar(who was rather unexpected - look ) , and evenJesus . *...

It ’s often said that there ’s no accounting for taste , so whether you ’re into Beethoven or Black Sabbath , Mozart or Madonna , your melodic predilection are by and large considered to be the result of a highly personal character queerness . scientist and musicians alike have spent years pondering whether these sonic prejudice are the mathematical product of one ’s own born nature or outside influences ....