Five crates of Scotch whisky and two of brandy have been recovered by a team restoring an Antarctic hut used more than 100 years ago by famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.

Richard Paterson, master blender at Whyte and Mackay, whose company supplied the Mackinlay’s whisky for Shackleton, described the find as “a gift from the heavens for whisky lovers.”

“If the contents can be confirmed, safely extracted and analyzed, the original blend may be able to be replicated. Given the original recipe no longer exists, this may open a door into history,” he said in a statement.

Flickr has created a Photo Pool to commemorate the upcoming 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Flickr users who have photos from that period stowed away somewhere, are invited to share them.

Such a strange, strange time.

It's an unprecedented find that could revolutionize ideas about medieval England's Germanic rulers: An amateur treasure-hunter searching a farmer's field with a metal detector unearthed a huge collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver artifacts.

The discovery sent a thrill through Britain's archaeological community, which said Thursday that it offers new insight into the world of the Anglo-Saxons, who ruled England from the fifth century until the 1066 Norman invasion and whose cultural influence is still felt throughout the English-speaking world.

Favorite line: "The hoard was officially declared treasure by a coroner on Thursday." See, that's what coroners do in the UK. When you find a hoard, they examine it to see if it's treasure. Not surprisingly, their job satisfaction levels are much higher than their counterparts in the United States, who tend to handle corpses rather than golden coins, precious gems and magical, legendary blades.