A 12-year-old girl has bought her dream iPhone 14 after selling homemade bread at school for GBP 2. Bianca Jemi Wariyava comes from a family of bakers and after her…
Antiquities experts have put on show a stunning display of ancient Roman gold jewellery buried with a young girl to save her from evil spirits in the afterlife. The haul…
An orphaned baby bundled onto an evacuation flight from Afghanistan after her parents died in a bomb blast has been reunited with members of her family. Maryam - now believed…
The world's largest Ottoman Quran weighing 176lbs has gone on show in Egypt. The Quran, which weighs an impressive 80 kilogrammes (176 lbs), went on show at Egypt’s Islamic Cultural…
Archaeologists in Israel have found a 6,000-year-old copper fishhook so large it may have been used to catch sharks. The piece, which was unearthed during infrastructure work in the coastal…
A 1,500-year-old town unearthed by archaeologists has been declared the Persian Gulf's oldest known commercial pearl diving community. The 6th-century town - in the Emirati state of Umm Al Quwain…
An international team of archaeologists has restored a series of rare ceiling paintings showing astrological signs of the Zodiac in an ancient Egyptian temple. The researchers, from the University of…
This 11-year-old lad has died a month after a stray dog bit him on the head in Jordan. Tragic Yahiya Islam Saleh Zaid Al Nebali was attacked outside his home…
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered this stunning mosaic floor that may be up to 1,500 years old. The floor, which is adorned with colourful floral designs, was first uncovered in…
A special gold bar to mark the holiest month for Muslim worshippers has been released by the UK's Royal Mint. The 20-gramme gold bullion bar features a design showing Mecca's…