In the New Kingdom, the fate of the deceased in the afterlife was reportedly affected by success in playing senet with underworld opponents. Here, a game board for senet, though not the board from the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in California.…
The child’s frantic dad rushed him to a health centre, but he was already in cardiac arrest. Medics spent an hour trying to revive him, but were unable to save his life n A five-year-old boy died after choking on…
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is “working to organise” a flight back to the UK for British nationals on board a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan due to coronavirus fears More than 70 UK nationals stuck on…
The tragic youngster passed away in hospital in Chennai, the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, as men have been arrested and are currently being held in police custody Police in Chennai arrested 16 men, according to…
n We’ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story n The director of the hospital in China’s coronavirus epicentre has died from the disease himself. n Dr Liu Zhiming, director of Wuhan…
An aye-aye in Madagascar. The aye-aye is one of nature’s most fascinatingly bizarre creatures. Native to Madagascar, this lemur is the largest nocturnal primate in the world and has unique features that set it apart. It has bat‐like ears that…
Nightmares are the worst. The sheets are damp with sweat. You’re cold, but your heart is racing as if an assailant just chased you down a dark street. It was just a nightmare, you tell yourself; there’s nothing to be…
People who are high on cannabis are more likely to form false memories, in which they wrongly “remember” information that they never actually learned or recall snippets of an event that never happened, new research suggests. False memories can arise…
n The World Health Organisation has said hand dryers won’t kill coronavirus and neither will spraying alcohol or chlorine all over your body. China’s latest figures showed 68,500 cases of the illness and 1,665 deaths, most of them in Hubei.…
A journal highlighted the close link of bats and the coronavirus-like pathogens after researchers were attacked by bats in secret labs just a stone’s throw away from the notorious wet market in Wuhan where it has been thought up to…