Experts in Germany have scanned the fascinating inner workings of encryption machines that were first developed in 1870 and that also included the famous Enigma machines used by the Nazis…
Boffins in China have unearthed an extremely rare giant panda fossil dating back over 100,000 years. Researchers from the Guizhou Institute of Mountain Resources of the Guizhou Academy of Sciences…
An international team of archaeologists has discovered seven dinosaur fossils near the Italian port city of Trieste with some of them dating back 80 million years potentially rewriting the current…
A team of scientists in Austria and Germany has uncovered the oldest known remains of a mysterious species of archaic humans called the Denisovans dating back 200,000 years in a…
A hoard of 5,600 silver coins from the Roman Empire dating back nearly 2,000 years have been unearthed in Germany. The Augsburg Art Collections and Museum said in a statement…
Experts in China have unearthed what could be the world's oldest human remains ever discovered, dating back as far as 331,000 years. AsiaWire has spoken to one of the paper's…
A new species of ‘indestructible’ water bear has been found fossilised in a chunk of amber dating back 16 million years. Tardigrades, also known as water bears and moss piglets,…
University of Edinburgh experts have helped prove that fossil teeth dating back 138 million years found more than a hundred years ago in Europe are from previously unknown species of…
A woven basket believed to be around 10,500 years old has been uncovered in a cave in the Israeli desert. The perfectly-preserved basket was found inside the Muraba'at cave in…
Four metres of python skin embroidered with religious symbols to ward off evil spirits have been discovered by anti-smuggling teams along with other religious items dating back to the Middle…