A French World War I mine has been spotted floating in the shallow waters of a river in a Romanian beauty spot. Naval Forces rushed to the scene at the…
A massive sword that is as long as a giant snake that has been discovered in Japan was once used in rituals, researchers have said. The 237-centimetre (993-inch) sword was…
A 16-year-old high-school pupil has amazed experts after unearthing a 1,600-year-old Roman oil lamp during a class hike. Yonatan Frankel, from Tamar High School, in Hod Hasharon, Israel, was on…
New research has determined that a Nazi concentration camp lampshade is made of stretched human skin. It has long been suspected that the "small lampshade" from the Buchenwald concentration camp…
A massive cache of more than 20,000 tonnes of World War II high explosives and chemical weapons has been removed from a mine shaft in Germany. The huge stash was…
A 96-year-old veteran who had to quit school to fight in World War II has finally graduated with his high school diploma 79 years late. Arthur Masterson was just 17…
An unexploded WWII bomb has washed up on a beach in California. The explosive device appeared on Pajaro Dunes, a beach between Santa Cruz and Monterey on the California coastline…
A 101-year-old American fighter pilot has met a 98-year-old German airman 79 years after they were both shot at on the same day during World War II. Ed Cottrell, from…
Scythian treasures from Crimea including a solid gold helmet that had been lent to the Netherlands 10 years ago have been returned to Ukraine in what Kyiv said was a…
Archaeologists in China have unearthed hundreds of priceless Ming Dynasty porcelain dating back hundreds of years and other priceless relics from an ancient shipwreck site at the bottom of the…