A 7,000-year-old prehistoric mummy from Libya’s Saharan past returned to the country Sunday after more than 20 years in Italy, touching down at Mitiga Airport in Tripoli aboard an Italian military aircraft.

The mummy, known as “Takarkori” or TK H1, was found at a rock shelter in the Tadrart Acacus region of southern Libya by the Italian Archaeological Mission in the Sahara.

Its return on June 14, 2026, ended its long stay in Italy, where researchers carried out years of scientific study on the ancient remains. After completing all official and customs procedures, the mummy was transferred to the National Museum in Tripoli.

The “Takarkori” remains date to what researchers call the “Green Sahara” period, a time when the Sahara had a far greener landscape and supported pastoral communities.

The mummy survived in remarkably good condition, making it unlike any other find on the African continent. That allowed researchers to study ancient DNA and piece together how Neolithic communities lived across North Africa.

Libya’s prehistoric mummy set for public display at the Red Castle

The restoration and scientific work carried out in Italy involved the Italian Archaeological Mission in the Sahara and the University of Rome, with ENI’s coordination and logistical backing from Italy’s air force and cultural ministry.

The prehistoric mummy from Libya is expected to go on public view at Tripoli’s Red Castle by late July. The complex houses the National Museum, which had been shut for over ten years before reopening last December.

Officials said the return fits into Libya’s wider push to recover and protect its national heritage while deepening cultural ties with Italy.

General secretary of TUC calls Reform proposal ‘a smokescreen for slashing women’s rights’

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A proposal, made by Reform UK days before the Makerfield byelection, to introduce a “women and motherhood protection act” that it says will restore equality before the law has been described as “shameless and deceptive”.

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Step back into mid-summer Athens in 1961, beautifully captured in color footage released from the legendary British Pathé archives on YouTube. This vintage travelogue offers a rare, sun-drenched glimpse of a bygone era in the Greek capital.

The footage takes us down major avenues such as Amalias, Dionysiou Areopagitou, and Panepistimiou, where buses and trolleybuses vastly outnumber private cars. In the heart of Plaka, only a handful of tourists browse the handful of souvenir shops. One particularly charming scene at the corner of Mnisikleous and Lysiou streets shows two foreign visitors enjoying fresh grapes bought from a passing street vendor outside the historic Kritikos tavern.

Over at Syntagma Square, an itinerant photographer captures a portrait of a young boy on a bench. He uses a classic box camera, its sides adorned with sample prints of his work. The video then shifts to Mikrolimano in Piraeus, revealing a pristine coastline with low-rise buildings, a large fishing fleet docked with nets spread along the pier, and virtually no commercial development.

Vouliagmeni with no beach umbrellas

At Vouliagmeni beach, crowds of sunbathers soak up the rays on an organized stretch of sand. Notably, there isn’t a single beach umbrella in sight. In those days, long before modern concerns about the ozone layer or skin health, the sun was viewed purely as a friend to embrace for that perfect tropical tan rather than an element to hide from.

The journey concludes around Ellinikon Airport. As the Pathé crew’s plane touches down, the surrounding landscape is completely untouched—with Mount Ymittos standing free of any human development.

Play at Gillian Lynne theatre in London will cycle through versions with weekend crowds able to pick one

In keeping with its well-earned reputation for cloak and dagger, the stage adaptation of the hit gameshow Traitors will present audiences with different renditions of the story depending on which night they attend.

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Some titles that once backed the Tories now ‘flirting with Farage’ as they try to gauge where readers stand

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The party in its crosshairs was Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain, the vehemently rightwing outfit that regards Nigel Farage’s Reform UK as too weak on deporting migrants.

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