Four people have been arrested after carrying out a clandestine excavation of a priceless ancient mosaic and then drawing attention to their crime by bragging about it on social media.…
This is the moment an ancient pharaoh's bracelet that was stolen from a museum is weighed for scrap, bent out of shape with pliers and then dropped into a bin…
The Swiss phone number 076 777 77 77 has been put up for sale for a whopping CHF 100,000. That is GBP 87,916, with the number being put on sale…
Astonished builders have unearthed a massive haul of silver coins dating back up to 500 years as they dug up a new sewer at a historic farmhouse. The hoard of…
An Israeli soldier who went for a hike in the rain while taking a two-day break from the army discovered an almost 3,000-year-old scarab beetle carved into a precious stone…
A 53-year-old man accused of stealing a priceless crucifix worn by Pope Benedict XVI is facing trial in Germany. Senior Public Prosecutor Rainer Vietze announced on 13th February that the…
A man was stunned when the cops showed up after he decided to have a piece of marble art appraised that turned out to have been looted from Pompeii 50…
Archaeologists in China have unearthed hundreds of priceless Ming Dynasty porcelain dating back hundreds of years and other priceless relics from an ancient shipwreck site at the bottom of the…
The returned looted Benin bronzes look set to end up as ornaments in private palaces of the country's wealthy ruler after Nigerian officials' decision to hand them over to the…
The world's largest Ottoman Quran weighing 176lbs has gone on show in Egypt. The Quran, which weighs an impressive 80 kilogrammes (176 lbs), went on show at Egypt’s Islamic Cultural…