The tsunami uncovers ancient sculptures

According to the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, written by an unknown Greek traveller in the first century AD, Mahabalipuram was a flourishing seaport. Ptolemy, another Greek traveller who visited India a few years after the writer of the Periplus, also notes the city's prosperity.

Tamarind paste, mud burial or klih : these preserved manuscripts

Northumberland's rolling moorlands, in the northern-most corner of England, are home to Britain's richest concentration of prehistoric rock art. Since the early nineteenth century, over a thousand carvings have been rediscovered nestling in the wilds. More may yet lie beneath the rambling undergrowth covering Northumberland's moors. Etched on to slabs of indigenous rock, these mysterious carvings