The Vatican Secret Archives, a collection spanning more than 1000 years, are stored in climate controlled chambers in Vatican City.

Interest in the archives has increased in recent years among the general public after they formed one of the key settings of US author Dan Brown's international bestselling novel, Angels and Demons, which spawned a Hollywood film of the same name.

The book deals with a fictional conspiracy by a secret order, the Illuminati, to destroy the Vatican.

Posted: 10:54:54 AM  

Prepare to throw away those old plastic dinosaurs : Triceratops wasn't one dinosaur - it was TWO separate species

The horned Triceratops is one of the most famous and recognisable of all known dinosaur species - but now it seems that the giant herbivore might actually be TWO species.
Horned dinosaurs' bony headpieces change during their lifespans - which makes identifying species difficult.

Now a study of skulls and skull fragments has shown that there are two distinct species - triceratops and torosaurus, which both lived in the same period 65 to 68 million years ago.

Posted: 10:46:07 AM