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Chau, according to his purported Instagram account a “Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician” and an “ambassador” for a US brand of beef jerky, interacted with the Sentinelese before he died and returned to the fishermen’s boat. (Instagram)
AGENCY

Calls to leave US missionary’s body on tribe’s island

John Chau was killed in a hail of arrows almost two weeks ago as he went ashore on North Sentinel island in the Indian Ocean

  • Agency
2 min read
‘You guys might think I’m crazy in all this but I think it’s worthwhile to declare Jesus to these people,’ the reports quoted a letter to John Allen Chau’s parents as saying. (Instagram)
ANCIENT CIVILISATION

Dead American told island tribe ‘Jesus loves you’

Police have consulted field experts including anthropologists and tribal welfare and forest officers to help them try and retrieve Chau’s body

  • Agency
3 min read
(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
ANCIENT CIVILISATION

New light on old civilisations

Scientists are remapping the stories of ancient civilisations by shooting them with lasers

  • Matthew Du Plessis
4 min read
ANCIENT CIVILISATION

Ancient pharaoh’s tomb unearthed in Egypt

A US team in Egypt has identified the tomb of Pharaoh Sobekhotep I, believed to be the founder of the 13th dynasty 3 800 years ago.

  • Sapa Afp
1 min read
ANCIENT CIVILISATION

Saudi archaeologists saddled with 9 000 year-old civilisation

Saudi Arabia is excavating a new archeological site that will show horses were domesticated 9 000 years ago in the Arabian peninsula,

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read