A scuba diver has told how he found a GBP 55,000 Patek Philippe watch a year after it was lost at the bottom of the sea. The devastated owner had…
A 107-year-old Italian World War II veteran who fought the Nazis as a resistance fighter and ended up in a Nazi concentration camp has died. Pasquale Gissi, known to locals…
A Nazi grandma who married an SS official and spent decades denying the Holocaust has been sentenced to jail again for claiming Auschwitz was never a death camp. Judges at…
A 99-year-old former Nazi death camp guard will not face justice after a court in Germany declared him unfit to stand trial. Former SS trooper Gregor Formanek was due to…
An ancient graveyard with bodies buried wrapped in ritual birch bark has been unearthed by archaeologists under a burned-down church in Russia. The cemetery, which dates back to the 1100s,…
A pair of anglers out fishing to feed their families have astonished academics after hooking a 5,000-year-old fossilised dolphin skull from a river 250 miles from the coast. Damian Crispien…
An ancient chess knight dating back 1,000 years has been unearthed by archaeologists in the ruins of a long-lost castle in Germany. The previously unknown site, in the mountains of…
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…