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 sentenced to two years of probation despite being convinced that the defendant is guilty of complicity in over 11,000 cases…
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 dug up the archaeological site. They are believed to have been searching for hidden treasure the well is said to…
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 Ilmenau in Thuringia, central Germany, discovered the animal's remains in a clapped-out old Trabant 601 in October 2022. Rietz had…
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 the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a historical personality of ours comes to an end and with her, a 70-year…
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 Zaragoza in Spain, working with colleagues at the NOVA University Lisbon and the Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social…
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 The Serpent’ is the title of a painting that was recently premiered at an international conference called ‘Art on the…
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 era. Police in the town of Guadassuar, which is located in the autonomous community of Valencia, in eastern Spain, were…
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 security guard as she used a sharp stone to scratch her initials into the Ancient Roman amphitheatre on 12th July.…
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 San Jose was a 62-gun, three-masted galleon that was sunk by the British with 600 people on board in 1708…
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 even visible in central China. The discovery is significant as in modern times the Aurora Borealis is usually only seen…