German and Austrian palaeontologists have reconstructed an 80-million-year-old dinosaur that was probably a slow-moving, hard-of-hearing loner. Struthiosaurus austriacus was up to eight metres (26 feet) tall, sluggish, had poor hearing…
These photos show incredible, intact stone-carved theatre masks representing comedy and tragedy that have been unearthed in the ancient theatre of a 2,500-year-old city. Excavations in the ancient city of…
Turkish police have carried out their largest ever ancient artefact bust in the capital Ankara, seizing 16,398 coins and 399 other historical items dating back to the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk…
Researchers in Chile have discovered fossils of frogs and toads from over 70 million years ago that walked alongside dinosaurs and are almost identical to species of frogs found in…
A team of archaeologists has discovered a decapitated horse next to its rider, as well as a trove of jewellery and weapons, in a cemetery where elite Merovingian nobles and…
Scientists have used ostrich egg shell beads to map a 50,000-year-old social network - the world's oldest, they claim - spanning Africa after over a decade of gathering data. The…
This ancient marble statue of the Aztec god of art, dance and games has gone on show in Mexico City. The statue, which was uncovered in the Guerrero neighbourhood of…
Mexican scientists have discovered 17 burial sites containing the remains of citizens who died during a pandemic in the 19th century. One leading scientist said: “It is striking that this…
Boffins in China have unearthed an extremely rare giant panda fossil dating back over 100,000 years. Researchers from the Guizhou Institute of Mountain Resources of the Guizhou Academy of Sciences…
Swiss experts have found evidence that no sooner had the world's first superpower developed weapons in the form of an ultra-light, easy to wear armour, than a version of it…