Edwardian family’s holiday pictures of Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia and Algeria go up for auction

A huge photograph album charting an Edwardian family’s holiday to the Middle East that could rival the Instagram holiday-makers of today has emerged 112 years later. The vast album contains 500 photographs and postcards that were taken by the snap-happy Bowen family. The husband, wife and their two grown-up daughters were prolific photographers and captured … Read more

First extraterrestrial PROTEIN discovered inside a meteorite found 30 years ago in Algeria

First extraterrestrial PROTEIN discovered inside a meteorite found 30 years ago in Algeria suggests the building blocks of life could already exist in space The meteorite — named Acfer 086 — was collected from Algeria back in 1990 Experts found it contains a protein called hemolithin made of iron and lithium The ends of the protein are … Read more