A nearly complete fossil of a woodpecker dating back 200,000 years has been discovered in Argentina. It was discovered in a sandstone quarry near San Pedro, about 170 kilometres (105…
A new tiny precursor of the dinosaurs has been unearthed by scientists excavating rocks on Spain's holiday island Mallorca. The creature - from the group moradisaurine captorhinids - was a…
A rare fragment of a poem by Ancient Roman scholar Virgil has been discovered scratched on a shard of a broken olive oil jar dating back nearly 2,000 years. The…
A deadly haul of unexploded artillery shells from World War II discovered by holidaymakers under the water near a beach in Turkey are destroyed in a controlled explosion. Police and…
Scientists have discovered a genetic link between modern grapes and varieties cultivated in Biblical times. The extraordinary discovery came as experts from Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa…
Archaeologists have discovered a skeleton thought to belong to a pre-Columbian indigenous hunter-gatherer society of which very little is known because they were nomads. The find, which has been described…
Archaeologists working on the Mayan train that is set to link up a number of pre-Hispanic sites in the Yucatan Peninsula have unearthed a statue of the god of lightning…
An Egyptian accountant was astonished when he discovered a stone bearing the likeness of the Virgin Mary carrying Jesus in her womb. Cairo resident Ahmed Hani El-Husseiny, 41, found the…
A haul of stolen children's clothes with their security tags still attached has been confiscated by police in Germany after they were discovered in a van. The clothes - all…
Marine scientists have discovered a huge and previously unknown coral reef in perfect condition off the coast of Charles Darwin's Galapagos islands. Experts in the team from Britain, America and…