A 1,800-year-old wine press in an ancient Roman fortress has been unearthed by archaeologists in Georgia. The press - still in remarkable condition - was reportedly found a few hundred metres from where a former garrison at the Gonio Fortress was, nine miles from the city of Batumi. The fortress…
Fans of the new Netflix hit "The Empress" will soon be able to book a stay in one of the main filming locations featured in the show on Airbnb. The lavishing palace named Weissenstein castle, located in the Pommersfelden, Bavaria will open its doors and welcome holidaymakers as of 7pm…
A terrified three-year-old girl had her arm bitten off by a bear when she put it into the beast's enclosure in a city zoo. The girl had been visiting the zoo in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, northern Iraq with her family, local media reported on 18th October. She was rushed to…
Remains of the first-ever Neanderthal family have been discovered in a cave in Russia 54,000 years after they lived. Scientists using DNA analysis unearthed a father, his teenage daughter, what they believe is a male cousin and an aunt or grandmother in the study. Experts from Germany's Max Planck Institute…
A classic car collector was astonished when he found a mummified cat on the backseat of a Soviet-era Trabant he bought on eBay. Oliver Rietz, 39, from the town of Ilmenau in Thuringia, central Germany, discovered the animal's remains in a clapped-out old Trabant 601 in October 2022. Rietz had…
Astonished archaeologists have unearthed a Stone Age tomb under a school with the perfectly preserved skeleton of a middle-aged man. The ancient grave was first found by a mechanical digger operator helping to excavate land for an extension to the school. Image shows an overview of the construction perimeter for…
An ancient burial tomb dating back to the era of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II has been unearthed by a digger at a building site. The cave was unsealed for the first time in more than three millennia by a mechanical digger during construction work at Palmahim Beach National Park south…
These remarkable underwater snaps show a treasure trove of shipwrecked Roman-era remains that ended up at the bottom of the Mediterranean. The astonishingly well-preserved finds are understood to come from cargo ships that sunk fully loaded. UNESCO recently spent a fortnight exploring three Roman-era shipwrecks in the Skerki Bank and…
A new species of dinosaur dating back 90 million years has been discovered in Argentina. The discovery was unearthed near the city of Plaza Huincul, in the province of Neuquen, in central Argentina. Newsflash obtained a statement from Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) on Monday, 5th…
Diver explores the remains of an ancient boat used to ferry medieval pilgrims on their way to one of the world's holiest shrines. The boat is said to have been used in the Route of Santiago de Compostela, a pilgrimage to the shrine of St James, one of Jesus Christ's…