A canvas painted completely white by modern art maestro Robert Ryman is to go under the hammer valued at over GBP 1.2 million. The 1970 minimal masterpiece is titled 'General…
A castle said to have inspired the Brothers Grimm's Sleeping Beauty fairytale is under siege from a modern-day foe as builders start to surround it with a forest of wind…
A painting bought in a charity shop for just USD 5 has been sold at auction as a modern masterpiece for nearly USD 200,000. The lucky buyer, who has not…
Scientists have discovered a genetic link between modern grapes and varieties cultivated in Biblical times. The extraordinary discovery came as experts from Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa…
Chinese archaeologists were abso-loo-tely stunned when they unearthed a 2,400-year-old flush toilet while excavating an ancient city. Dating back to the Qin dinasty (221BC-206BC), it is the first and the…
A new species of flying dinosaur with 400 tiny hooked teeth has been unearthed by British scientists. The bizarre-looking pterosaur - which dates back 152 million years to T-Rex's Jurassic…
These are the amazing artworks made out of cotton thread by self-taught artist Cecile Davidovici. Cecile, 35 - born and raised in Paris, France - regularly delights her 178,000 Instagram…
This is the reconstructed face of a Stone Age beauty unseen for 31,000 years ago - and she seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to a famous modern-day screen star.…
Modern human brains make fewer mistakes than those of Neanderthals despite being of similar size, scientists in Germany have found. Researchers from the German Max Planck Institute have discovered that…
The oldest known sample of an E. coli bacteria has been extracted from a 16th-century Italian mummy by an international team of researchers. Modern E. coli bacteria is often found…