Experts have used a new technique to thaw the 1,300-year-old remains of a child dubbed the "Ice Prince" after they froze them with nitrogen to preserve them. The "Ice Prince"…
A woman who was declared dead to her town when she reached 101 has gone on to live another 20 years and has celebrated her 121st birthday this week by…
A heartbroken dad who was taking his supposedly dead baby to a cemetery to be buried after hospital doctors told him and his wife that it was stillborn was shocked…
Gravediggers preparing the ground for a new cemetery in Mexico were shocked to discover the plots were already in use as they contained the 10,000-year-old remains of a mammoth. The…
An ancient Egyptian tomb belonging to a royal scribe who was in charge of sacrifices under Pharaoh Ramses II has been discovered. The discovery took place at the Saqqara Necropolis,…
A Bronze Age sword that could date back as far as 1700 BC has been found by a man using a metal detector in his parents’ back garden. Matti Rintamaa…
Experts have discovered evidence of beer drinking in the south of China 9,000 years ago where people are believed to have drunk rudimentary beer from the pots in rituals to…
Nearly a thousand coffins still awaiting burial at an Italian cemetery are starting to burst at the seams as the searing heat caused them to warp and even burst open,…
Archaeologists have discovered wicker baskets filled with fruit and Greek ceramic artefacts that have survived for over 2400 years in the sunken ruins of the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion off…
An Italian woman was forced to keep the coffin with the body of her dead mum in her living room for days because all cemeteries in the city are full.…