A Cold War-era nuclear fallout shelter has had its price slashed by more than half after failing to find a buyer in Germany. The fully operational bunker, in Xanten, in…
A 16-year-old high-school pupil has amazed experts after unearthing a 1,600-year-old Roman oil lamp during a class hike. Yonatan Frankel, from Tamar High School, in Hod Hasharon, Israel, was on…
New research has determined that a Nazi concentration camp lampshade is made of stretched human skin. It has long been suspected that the "small lampshade" from the Buchenwald concentration camp…
A 2,000-year-old stone box unearthed burned and damaged in Israel's ancient City of David was probably a casualty of a revolt against Roman invaders by occupied Jews, say experts. The…
Iconic toy firm Playmobil has revealed its first sales fall in its 49 year history and blamed it on children abandoning traditional play for video games. The German company's classic…
A gang who pulled off one of the greatest heists in criminal history are to get EUR 3.8 million of public cash to pay defence lawyers' bills, it has emerged.…
Viking kings and nobles were among the first in history to put glass into the windows of their timber-framed longhouses, archaeologists have discovered. Early glass windows are usually associated with…
The world's oldest zoo has boasted with the hatching of two adorable king penguin twin chicks for the first time ever in its history. The two fluffy fur balls can…
These pictures show the skeleton of a religious leader in a tomb where he had been laid to rest some 3,000 years ago in what is now northern Peru. Local…
A special unit of divers of the Spanish Civil Guard have recovered two antique amphoras that were washed up on a beach in the tourist province of Cadiz. The amphoras…