
Ancient Jewels Unearthed
A 2,000-year-old hoard of highly crafted gold rings has been unearthed by archaeologists excavating an ancient village in Saudi Arabia. The three rings and a large bronze bull's head were…
A 2,000-year-old hoard of highly crafted gold rings has been unearthed by archaeologists excavating an ancient village in Saudi Arabia. The three rings and a large bronze bull's head were…
An Austrian man has been jailed for seven and a half years in Iran after he was arrested last year for being accused of spying. The man - identified only…
A small pottery shard that was believed to be a rare 2,500-old find inscribed with the name of the Persian king Darius the Great turned out to be nothing more…
Rare brain operations carried out 3,500 years ago on two elite – and perhaps even royal – brothers by Bronze Age surgeons have been revealed by archaeologists. The skulls of…
Jerusalem has returned centuries-old scrolls after they were removed by an Israeli rescue team after an earthquake-wrecked synagogue was destroyed in Turkey. The ancient scrolls, known as the Book of…
A pod of dolphins washed onto a beach are saved by a rescuer as he pushes them back out to sea. The extraordinary scenes - filmed on the Arabian Sea…
An ancient solid gold necklace fragment found in Israel could have belonged to a wealthy family at the time of the Roman occupation. Experts in Jerusalem say the treasure probably…
An Irish family whose daughter Elizabeth was seriously burnt in a house fire in Qatar in 2014 when she was a baby have still not received a penny as the…
These heart-wrenching snaps show the pet cat of a teenage protester who was brutally tortured by Iranian prison guards watching over her grave. Tragic Yalda Aghafazli was seized by security…
At first glance, it seems like the touch of ancient history reaching out to the future from the 1,000-year-old walls built in Jerusalem to defy the Crusaders. A handprint left…