The inhabitants of the "world's oldest city" - now a UNESCO World Heritage Site - painted the skeletal remains of their dead and buried them in the walls of people's…
These rare conjoined twin turtles that made international headlines after they were found on a beach by a tourist have died of multiple organ failure. The conjoined turtles were found…
This 2,000-year-old hoard of Celtic gold coins called "rainbow cups" in reference to the legendary pot of gold at the end of the rainbow has been unearthed in Germany. The…
A Turkish food company has changed the name of their 30-year-old chocolate ‘Negro’ biscuit brand to ‘Nero’ to avoid being criticised as racist. The food firm Eti made the announcement…
This is the moment two bizarre-looking conjoined tortoises very slowly crawl across a table whilst being observed by curious scientists. The two-headed tortoise was found by a tourist at the…
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…
These haunting images of abandoned Russian churches in the middle of fields or hidden in forests have been captured by Russian photographers documenting the country's fast-vanishing religious heritage. Some of…
A well-preserved fossil of an unknown bird species which resembles the great tit has been uncovered at an UNESCO World Heritage site by German archaeologists. The well-conserved fossil of a…
A spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Benedictine abbey that was once plundered by the Gestapo has received back a long-lost collection of Mollusc shells 80 years after they were stolen from…
The design for new doors at a Spanish Cathedral and Unesco Heritage Site - which include the image of God painted as a human man - has caused outrage among…