Archaeologists have identified the world’s oldest-known drinking straws — and they were a far cry from the paper ones you get to slurp up your McDonald’s milkshake.
Made of gold and silver and often decorated with a bull figurine, each straw ran to three-feet-long and was used to sip beer from communal bowls at banquets.
The eight tubes — which date back more than 5,000 years — were first unearthed from Maikop kurgan, a Bronze Age burial mound in Southern
Kate Green was in bed one night when she heard somebody trying to break into her home. This was 2017. Her apartment, in the Hollywood Hills, was a well-appointed studio. Green heard footsteps, and saw a stranger peering through the full-length glass by her front door. For a moment, she was paralyzed; then she dove for cover in her closet. By the time the police arrived, the unknown intruder had disappeared.
Green, who is in her mid-thirties, was the right
