For decades, experts have disputed whether weapons found in ancient burial chambers of Egyptian princesses were actually their tools or placed there in a purely symbolic way. Now, a reassessment of five royal women who lived 4,000 years ago showed they were skilled at archery. Strong muscle attachments and healed fractures were observed in multiple […] The post Pharaoh’s Daughters Were Skilled at Archery 4,000 Years ago, Reveals New Research appeared first on Good News Network.

Although everyone urged the giant man to pursue a basketball career as a 7-foot-3-inch athlete, but that was never his dream. Jordan Wilmore would rather help others, so he trained to become a Texas policeman. He was one of the tallest players in college basketball, but now, he’s going to be one of the tallest […] The post Others Dreamed of His Basketball Career But He Wanted to Help People–He’s Now a Texas Police Officer appeared first on Good News Network.

A daughter helped save her father’s vintage Italian shoe shop by posting about a pair of Y2K kitten heels on TikTok—and now it has lines outside the door. For over 30 years Rachid Lazraq has owned Rich Collection Italia, but the emergence of online shopping practices, and an aging clientele, left the store in East […] The post Daughter Saves Dad’s Struggling Shoe Shop With TikTok Appeal—And Customer Lines Out the Door appeared first on Good News Network.

At University Christian School in Jacksonville, Florida, they aren’t just a community; they are a family. The students, faculty, and staff commit themselves to one another and their faith life. Longtime assistant coach Matt Thomas has been battling cancer this summer, and his team wanted him to know they’re in his corner. This morning, before the day began, our football team laced up their shoes with one purpose: to run to Coach Matt Thomas’ home and pray with him.“Coach Thomas is currently battling cancer, but today was a reminder that no one fights alone. We believe in the power of prayer, the strength of community, and a God who is faithful through every season,” University Christian School shared on Instagram. “Please join us in praying for Coach Thomas and his family as they walk this journey. We stand with you, Coach.” Seeing the University Christian School Football Team Made Coach Thomas’ Day University Christian School’s football team impressed the community. Many commented on how touching the students’ act of love really was. “This is great! UC has always supported the community as well as all the UC Christians and their families!!!! So happy that Trent May had a chance to experience this school and to become a better person for it! Coach Sirmon was instrumental in helping Trent grow into a young man,” someone wrote. Others added their prayers for Coach Thomas and the entire University Christian School community. “What a beautiful and heartfelt story. Thank you young men for showing there are still good people in this world (I’m sure many more than we know) but you all are beautiful people. God Bless you all and your coach, I pray,” someone wrote. This story’s featured image can be found here

When Kristen Vallaire brought home a used Sony DVD player she’d bought at a Goodwill in Leland, North Carolina, she expected it to power on to a blank screen. Instead, when she hooked it up to her TV on May 12, it started playing a stranger’s wedding. Someone had left a DVD inside and forgotten about it. Most people would have ejected it, shrugged, and moved on. Vallaire decided the couple in the video should have it back. The problem was that she had nothing to go on: no names, no date, just faces at a wedding she’d never attended. So she posted the footage to a local Facebook community group and asked whether anyone recognized the bride. It worked almost immediately. As WWAY-TV reported, a woman named Ana O’Donnell saw the post and recognized her own wedding. The DVD player, it turned out, had belonged to her mother, who died last year at 96. O’Donnell said her mother had watched the wedding video over and over because it let her revisit family members and loved ones she’d lost over the years. Somehow, after her death, the player had made its way onto a Goodwill shelf with the disc still inside. A woman takes a DVD out of the player. Photo credit: Stockbyte/Canva O’Donnell hadn’t even realized it was gone. “I would have gone to get it soon, you know, at some point, and not known that I’d given it away or that my mother had had it,” she told WWAY-TV. She’d assumed the video was safe somewhere, waiting for whenever she wanted it. It had come within one stranger’s decision of being lost for good. Instead, she got it back. O’Donnell said the return does more than preserve her mother’s memory: It gives her something to hand down. She comes from a big Portuguese family, and she hopes to show the video to her children and grandchildren one day—a piece of family history that nearly disappeared onto a thrift-store shelf. Both women said the whole thing was a small demonstration of what social media can do when people use it to help each other, and of how far a stranger will sometimes go for someone they’ll never otherwise meet. Old footage of a wedding. Photo credit: Annie Spratt/Unsplash Vallaire could have watched 30 seconds of someone else’s wedding and hit eject. Because she didn’t, a woman gets to keep the last thing her mother loved to watch. The post Her late mother’s DVD player went to Goodwill. Nobody realized what was still inside it. appeared first on Upworthy.