A makeup kit containing a pair of 17-cm iron scissors and iron tweezers 8.5 cm long has been discovered in the tomb of a woman who lived at the end of the Heian Period (794-1192), archaeologists said recently.

A top international heritage award has been unveiled at a rare mud house in Montrose, which had been due to be demolished.

Mrs Chapman was stunned when she went to prepare some soil for new plants, and discovered a metal decorative ring buried in the mud at the bottom of the garden.

A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs - like wild boar tusks - roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported Thursday.

A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics

The Dalmore Oculus beat its estimated price of between £15,000 and £20,000 with a hammer price of £23,000. With the buyer's premium the lot cost £27,600.

The next time you bite into a pork-and-leek sausage, remember to thank the Romans. Show some gratitude to the Celts, too, for inventing the bacon sarnie. These are the sorts of foodie facts you learn when squatting by a clay pit fire in a Cornish field

n northeastern Afghanistan, where the snowmelt waters of the Kokcha River flow into the silty grey expanse of the Amu Darya River, a flat-topped hill rises above the valley below.

Environmentalists across the world are to be enlisted as armchair detectives to monitor satellite images of rainforests and report any illegal logging.

A treasure trove of Tibetan art and manuscripts uncovered in "sky high" Himalayan caves could be linked to the storybook paradise of Shangri-La, says the team that made the discovery.