A 4,000-year-old skeleton from an ancient Bronze Age shepherd has been unearthed with an arrowhead still buried in one of his ribs. The discovery, in a prehistoric mountain graveyard in…
Four people have been arrested after carrying out a clandestine excavation of a priceless ancient mosaic and then drawing attention to their crime by bragging about it on social media.…
This is the moment an ancient pharaoh's bracelet that was stolen from a museum is weighed for scrap, bent out of shape with pliers and then dropped into a bin…
The disappearance of a golden bracelet that once belonged to an ancient pharaoh has triggered a major investigation at a museum in Egypt. Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities confirmed…
The world's oldest ant fossil preserved within a 113-million-year-old lump of limestone has been unearthed in a long-forgotten museum collection. Biologists at Sao Paulo University's Zoology Museum have revealed what…
Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes depicting initiation rites of Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine and ecstasy. The discovery was made in a banquet hall…
French customs have discovered dinosaur teeth dating back 70 million years being transported in a lorry from Spain on its way to Italy. The incident took place near Menton on…
The oldest-known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments has sold for over USD 5 million at Sotheby's in New York. Dating back to the Late Roman-Byzantine Era (ca. 300-800…
A lump of amber unearthed in the South Pole that is the first ever to be discovered there has proven how Antarctica was once covered in lush rainforests. The amber,…
Astonished scientists have unearthed what are believed to be the smallest dinosaur eggs ever found during a fossil hunting expedition in China. The six eggs, excavated in eastern Jiangxi Province,…