A Holocaust survivor has faced a 100-year-old man who worked as a guard at the Nazi concentration camp where he was sent. Proceedings against Josef S., 100, who is on…
Vienna’s Natural History Museum has discovered 33 new species of snails that lived millions of years ago after unboxing them from their 150-year storage. The Museum of Natural History in…
An Englishman has discovered numerous passageways hidden behind a bookshelf in his 500-year-old Sussex family home and he believes that they once even extended to nearby buildings and a church.…
These images show how a nine-month-old baby is stealing the show during an archaeological dig at a 12,000-year-old settlement. The dig is taking place in the district of Hasankeyf, which…
A new species of ‘indestructible’ water bear has been found fossilised in a chunk of amber dating back 16 million years. Tardigrades, also known as water bears and moss piglets,…
A 'flying dragon' like dinosaur which had a wingspan wider than a fully grown man and soared over a Jurassic desert 160 million years ago has been unearthed. The exact…
This intact 3,000-year-old golden mask has been unearthed from an ancient sacrifice pit and measuring nearly 40 centimetres wide, it could be the largest golden mask and the heaviest gold…
A nearly 2,000-year-old statue including the incredibly well-preserved head of the Roman Emperor Hadrian was unearthed by archaeologists in an ancient Turkish city who believe the statue was built just…
A forensic report on a family who were hospitalised including a four-year-old girl who died has concluded that they had been poisoned after eating pomegranates that had been sprayed with…
From just the fragment of a 70,000-year-old neanderthal's skull found off the coast of Holland, experts have reconstructed the ancient human ancestors face and even given him a smile. In…