Director James Cameron has begun his journey to a place only two men have gone before — the deepest point in the ocean.

A calm James Cameron recently broke his own record with the world’s deepest solo submarine dive, plunging 5.1 miles (8.2km) in the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea.

TO the would-be explorer the senior editor (expeditions) at the National Geographic Magazine is a magnetic figure, but daunting. He looks through those shoals of letters which arrive weekly with pleas of sponsorship for proposed expeditions.

A leather shoe believed to be the world's oldest has been found in the mountains of Armenia by a research team led by archaeologists from UCC.

A Peruvian geographic society claims the long-disputed source of the Amazon River was correctly identified in 1996 by Polish explorer Jacek Palkiewicz, despite claims by the US-based National Geographic Society to the contrary.

From rural Australia to Siberia to the south-western US state of Oklahoma, languages that embody the history and traditions of people are dying, US researchers said today.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS probing Peru’s lifeless northern desert discovered a 1,500-year-old mummy that may unlock secrets of the Moche, one of the mysterious civilisations that once ruled the Andean nation.

ATTEMPTS to brush up the image of Judas Iscariot are not exactly big news.

JUDAS was not a traitor but a close friend of Jesus who was only doing his bidding when he turned him in with a kiss, a newly translated ancient document unveiled in the US suggests.

Judas was not a traitor but a close friend of Jesus who was only doing his bidding when he turned him in with a kiss, a newly translated ancient document unveiled in the US today suggests.

Soon after scientists landed by helicopter in the mist-shrouded mountains of one of Indonesia’s most remote provinces, they stumbled on a primitive egg-laying mammal that simply allowed itself to be picked up and brought to their field camp for observation.

THE name and reputation of Judas Iscariot will never be quite the same again if a group of Vatican scholars gets its way.

Heavy winds and high seas in the South Atlantic today forced explorers to abandon their search for an Argentine warship sunk by a British nuclear submarine during the 1982 Falkland Islands war.

DESPITE the horror of the September 11 attacks, less than half of all young Americans know that the Taliban and Al Qaida are based in Afghanistan.

A Bulgarian historian today launched an ambitious project to reconstruct the Biblical ark, complete with pairs of animals, as a tourist attraction.

An American man has paid nearly €40,000 to have dinner with South African actress Charlize Theron.