The Renaissance was a period of “rebirth” in arts, science and European society. It was a time of transition from the ancient world to the modern.

Turkmenistan’s president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov ordered experts to close the ‘Gates of Hell’ – crater of burning natural gas in the Karakum desert

The heart from a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a Maryland man in a last-ditch effort to save his life.

A badger forced to scavenge for food by a snowstrom has uncovered a stash of 209 Roman coins in a cave in Spain.

Archaeologists in China have discovered a rare 2,500-year-old piece of military equipment; an intricately-fashioned leather-scale armor that resembles the scales of a fish.

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The remains of a monstrous “sea dragon” that swam in the seas some 180 million years ago have been unearthed in England.

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