Temple Church

The Temple Church was built by the Knights Templar. It was consecrated on the 10 February 1185. It is famous for being a round church typical of the Knights Templar.  

The Magna Carta (or more precisely Magna Carta Libertatum. or Great Charter of Freedoms), issued in 1215, in the reign of King John of England, youngest son of King Henry II, which put into writing the King and government were not above the law, was negotiated in the Temple.

The area around the Temple Church is still known as Temple. The Knights Templar were suppressed in 1312. The church is now owned by the Middle Temple and Inner Temple Inns of Court. Inner Temple features a legal reference library dating back to 1506.

Blackfriars Station, also known as London Blackfriars, served by Circle and District Lines, is very close to Tudor Street which leads to the entrance to the Inner Temple. It is the only London station whose platforms span the River Thames.

Zambia Yields World's Oldest Wooden Structure

A wooden structure dating almost 500,000 years old has been found on the banks of the Kalambo River in Zambia (South Central Africa). Zambia's capital is Lusaka and lies east of Angola. Go further East and you reach the other side of Africa (East Coast) and Malawi.

This discovery predates the emergence of homo sapiens which appeared on Earth between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago.

Professor Larry Barham of the University of Liverpool published the finding in the journal Nature. 

The Kalambo Falls region was first excavated in 1953.