A 90-year-old woman who survived the Holocaust when she was a little girl claimed that she played dead as she lay among corpses in Auschwitz to save her life. Eva…
At first glance, it seems like the touch of ancvient history reaching out to the future from the 1,000-year-old walls built in Jerusalem to defy the Crusaders. A handprint left…
A historian has been accused of glorifying the Nazi regime in a new history of their brutal hold on power in Austria during World War II. Writer Johannes Hofinger apparently…
A Nazi World War II treasure map showing the site of buried chests of gold and jewels has been made public by officials in the Netherlands. The seven chests are…
A nearly 3,000-year-old water reservoir in which Jesus allegedly restored a blind man's sight will be excavated and open to the public in the coming months. The ancient Pool of…
The surprise finding of a long-lost Last Supper painting in Germany that shows Jesus and the disciples lounging on cushions rather than seated at a table has been described as…
These devilish-looking horned skulls spotted by climbers in the Italian Alps have been identified by UK scientists as belonging to prehistoric wild goats that died more than 7,000 years ago.…
A shipwreck thought to date back hundreds of years to medieval times has been found perfectly preserved at the bottom of a lake. An unmanned sub equipped with cameras discovered…
A former East German Berlin Wall border guard officer has revealed how he went against orders to open the gates that led to the collapse of communism. Harald Jaeger -…
This German nuclear fallout bunker with concrete walls that are three metres thick and dating back to the Cold War has gone on sale on eBay for EUR 1.6 million.…