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7 things seasoned antiques shoppers always look for when buying secondhand

Many people miss these subtle signs of quality.

Bones of St Francis of Assisi go on display for the first time – here’s why it took 800 years

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims are expected to pay homage to the remains of the 11th-century saint famous for his love of the natural world.

Ancient bone may be first physical evidence of Hannibal’s ‘war machine’ elephants in Western Europe

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.