Scientists are redrawing lines of ancient trade routes after discovering that 4,500-year-old gold in treasures found in both Troy and modern-day Iraq were mined in the same place. A new study has shown that gold objects unearthed at the ancient Greek city of Troy and some 2,400 kilometres (1,500 miles)…
Stunning artworks made by Russian embroiderer Galissa with beads from old junk jewellery. One piece shows how the 30-year-old made an incredible likeness of Wednesday - played by Christina Ricci - from the Addams Family movies. https://youtube.com/shorts/U5csMV8cLNQ @shalfetr/Newsflash Another shows her uncanny depiction of Macaulay Culkin playing Kevin McCallister in…
A man has found an Iron-Age Viking sword and jewellery while clearing some undergrowth in his forest in Finland, yet despite the fact that they suspect there are more treasures - the local heritage committee does not have the cash to dig them up. The man, who has not been…
A German pensioner discovering a plastic bag packed with precious jewellery and cash in a hedge in his garden has been told by cops that he can keep it all. The man - whose identity and age have been withheld due to local privacy laws - made the discovery during…
Experts tracking a collection of more than 2,000 ancient Mexican treasures have been helped by five-cent coins and a hotel ashtray stashed with them. Officials from the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) used the clues to work out when the artefacts left the country, it is reported.…
A farmer in Turkey has found this ancient golden bracelet dating back 3,300 years to the Hittite civilisation while ploughing his field. The bracelet, which is said to be one of a kind, was found by a farmer ploughing his field in the village of Citli, in the Mecitozu District…
A team of archaeologists has discovered a decapitated horse next to its rider, as well as a trove of jewellery and weapons, in a cemetery where elite Merovingian nobles and warriors were buried. The Merovingians were a Frankish dynasty that ruled from the middle of the 5th century until 751…
This glove worn by Empress Sisi on the day she was murdered and fetched nearly GBP 56,000 at auction. Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary (1837-1898) was murdered on 10th September in Geneva by anarchist Luigi Lucheni, 25, who stabbed her with a sharpened needle while pretending to…
A pair of diamond bracelets that once belonged to France's last queen, Marie Antoinette, have sold at a Christie's auction for over GBP 6 million. The bracelets, which are lined with 140- to 150-carat diamonds, were hidden in a chest and smuggled out of France when the queen was imprisoned…
A researcher in Canada has discovered the oldest non-marine crab ever which also happens to be the most complete fossil of a crab ever discovered because it was trapped in amber for over a 100 million years. The University of Alberta said in a statement that the discovery was made…