A former Nazi concentration camp secretary who allegedly helped murder 11,412 people is set to walk free. The public prosecutor has asked that the 97-year-old Stutthof concentration camp secretary be…
Officials in Israel busted three looters digging for treasure in an ancient Ottoman well. Inspectors from Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) Antiquities Theft Prevention Unit caught the robbers red-handed as they…
A classic car collector was astonished when he found a mummified cat on the backseat of a Soviet-era Trabant he bought on eBay. Oliver Rietz, 39, from the town of…
Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer has expressed his condolences to the Royal family and the people of the United Kingdom after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Chancellor Nehammer said: "With…
Palaeontologists have discovered a new species of crocodile that lived with the last dinosaurs and that laid the thickest eggs on record. The group of palaeontologists from the University of…
A 1930s artwork that pokes fun at Hitler and was believed to have been found years ago in a train station may have been painted by Picasso. ‘The Eye of…
Police officers searching a home for drugs discovered more than a thousand ancient treasures dating back to the 12th and 18th centuries, with some even dating back to the Roman…
A 30-year-old Canadian tourist has been booked by police in Rome after staff caught her carving her initials on a wall of the Colosseum. The woman was caught by a…
Two previously unknown shipwrecks have been found near a famous Spanish galleon laden with an estimated USD 17 billion in gold that was sunk by the British in 1708. The…
The oldest recorded mention of the aurora borealis has been found in ancient Chinese text referring to the phenomenon that dates back to the 10th century BC when it was…