Read more about the article Boffins Discover Unknown Beetle Among Historical Items Which Escaped Devastating Museum Fire
Image shows the newly discovered beetle species Dorynota phoenix, undated photo. It was almost destroyed in a fire at the Brazilian National Museum in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2018. (Senckenberg/Newsflash)

Boffins Discover Unknown Beetle Among Historical Items Which Escaped Devastating Museum Fire

Scientists examining one of the few items to have escaped a devastating fire that destroyed a spectacular museum collection have discovered a previously unknown species of insect. The Brazilian National…

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Read more about the article Looters Caught Red-Handed Digging Up Ancient Well For Treasure
Photo shows the moment when three looters were caught while they were excavating and destroying historical layers in an Ottoman well next to the cemetery of the Bedouin city of Rahat in Negev, Israel, undated photo. The robbers are suspected of searching for a hidden treasure, which, according to a Bedouin myth, was buried in the well, inside a cave. (Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquity Authority Robbery Prevention Unit/Newsflash)

Looters Caught Red-Handed Digging Up Ancient Well For Treasure

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…

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Read more about the article Mummified Moggie Found On Back Seat Of Soviet-Era Trabant
Image shows a mummified cat, undated photo. It was found in an old Trabant 601 in the town of Ilmenau, Thuringia, central Germany in October 2022. (CEN)

Mummified Moggie Found On Back Seat Of Soviet-Era Trabant

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…

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Read more about the article Palaeontologists Discover New Crocodile Species With Thickest Eggs Ever That Lived With Last Dinosaurs
Picture shows Pachykrokolithus excavatum shell fragments, undated. They were found in found in La Ribagorza, Spain, dated within the 250,000 years of the Cretaceous period, close to the extinction of the dinosaurs. (Manuel Perez Pueyo/Newsflash)

Palaeontologists Discover New Crocodile Species With Thickest Eggs Ever That Lived With Last Dinosaurs

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…

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Read more about the article Painting From Train Station That Ridicules Hitler Was Probably Painted By Picasso Say Experts
Picture shows the painting that could be by Pablo Picasso, undated. It is believed that the dictator Adolf Hitler is represented in a caricatured manner. (Team Arte in Fuga da Hitler/Newsflash)

Painting From Train Station That Ridicules Hitler Was Probably Painted By Picasso Say Experts

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…

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Read more about the article Cops Searching For Drugs Find Fortune In Ancient Pots
Moment of the drug trafficking search in a house where the archaeological items were found in Guadassuar, Valencia, Spain, July 2022. (Newsflash)

Cops Searching For Drugs Find Fortune In Ancient Pots

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…

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Read more about the article Two Ships Found Near Spanish Galleon Full Of Gold And Sunk By British In 18th Century
Colombian authorities have discovered two new wrecks near the San Jose, which they also managed to film in more detail, in June, 2022. (Armada de Colombia/Newsflash)

Two Ships Found Near Spanish Galleon Full Of Gold And Sunk By British In 18th Century

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…

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