Archaeologists have discovered an ancient brewery dating back to over 4,000 years ago in the so-called German Stonehenge. The find, believed to be central Germany's first brewery, was excavated at the Ring Sanctuary of Poemmelte located in the Salzland district in the state of Saxony-Anhalt in August 2022. Poemmelte -…
A mysterious mechanical device made more than 2,000 years ago to track the movements of heavenly bodies that was so complex it was believed to have been a fake was possibly invented by famed mathematician Archimedes of ancient Greece, according to UK experts. Known as the Antikythera Mechanism (AKM), it…
A German explorer has been found dead near a Mayan temple used in Star Wars after going missing for nearly two days. The body of the explorer, who has been named as Dr Stephan Baitz, was found in the jungle in Guatemala, near the Tikal temple complex, after reportedly having…
This poor puma has had to be put down by Colorado wildlife officers after it entered a residential complex apparently in search of food and human help but was deemed too emaciated to survive. The mountain lion was spotted in and around several complexes in Lionshead in municipality of Vail…
The boss of a museum in Italy dedicated to the Mafia organisation 'Ndrangheta has been given a nine-month suspended sentence for aggravated fraud. The sentence was handed down by a court in Calabria, after a complex trial lasting nearly five years, to Claudio La Camera, who is the former president…
A Jewish survivor of the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp has testified in court against a former secretary who is on trial for complicity in over 11,000 cases of murder and attempted murder. The Itzehoe District Court in the town of the same name in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein heard…
A malnourished young mountain lion that was roaming around a complex for several days has been captured by the Californian authorities after it was found hiding up a tree. The police in the city of Palm Springs in the US state of California made a statement detailing the unusual rescue…
This is the moment Brazilian firefighters rescue a sleepy sloth relaxing on telephone cables. The incident was filmed at a residential complex in the municipality of Bayeux in the Brazilian state of Paraiba. Local residents spotted the sloth hanging on the cables and called the fire department who sent a…
Twenty-two cats are taking legal action against the managers of an apartment complex after they tried to evict the animals from the premises. The felines including Blackie, Pearl and Warrior are all named as plaintiffs in court documents filed against the administrators of the apartment block in the city of…
This 3,000-year-old rock formation called Avdalaz Castle - considered one of the world’s first multi-storey apartment complexes - has continued to attract hordes of tourists during the pandemic. The ancient site is located in the village of Ayazini in Phrygian Valley located between the Turkish resort cities of Eskisehir, Afyonkarahisar,…