The body of a young World War I officer has re-emerged from the ice of a glacier on the Italian Dolomites more than a century after he fell in battle,…
Nazi treasure hunters have been given permission to start the excavation of a secret World War II bunker that could contain the legendary lost Amber Room. The breathtaking carved and…
The world's oldest ant fossil preserved within a 113-million-year-old lump of limestone has been unearthed in a long-forgotten museum collection. Biologists at Sao Paulo University's Zoology Museum have revealed what…
A tourist who was caught with a live World War II era grenade at an Italian airport told horrified customs officers she had picked it up as a "souvenir". Astonished…
Celebrity chef Yotam Ottolenghi's gran was a secret Israeli Mossad agent who played a key role in hunting down Nazi Holocaust monster Adolf Eichmann, it has emerged. Israeli-born Ottolenghi's grandmother…
Police in Poland scrambled to secure a site after wild boar unearthed a batch of unexploded grenades from World War II. The incident took place near Biecino, in the Pomeranian…
Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes depicting initiation rites of Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine and ecstasy. The discovery was made in a banquet hall…
A pair of lovebirds who married in 1943 have been declared Europe's oldest married couple by the European Supercentenarian Organisation. Eduard Cuyvers, 101, and Angeline Haseldonckx, 99, who live in…
An Auschwitz survivor has said that she never dreamt that she would require police protection during her visits to German schools where she goes to tell her story. Eva Szepesi,…
A German family has been evicted from their home after a court ruled that the property must be returned to a Jewish organisation because the current owner's ancestors had purchased…