Spanish archaeologists have named the oldest hominid ever found in Europe ‘Pink’ after the legendary English rock band Pink Floyd. Remains of man's ancient ancestor - dating back 1.4 million…
The charred remains of 8,000 victims of a Nazi World War II death camp have been unearthed in woodlands in northern Poland. Experts say 17.5 tonnes of human ashes have…
Experts have used a new technique to thaw the 1,300-year-old remains of a child dubbed the "Ice Prince" after they froze them with nitrogen to preserve them. The "Ice Prince"…
Police have made a gruesome discovery of 300 more bones in the basement of a cannibal serial killer in Mexico. Andres Filomeno Mendoza, 73 - dubbed the ‘Cannibal of Atizapan’…
The discovery of the graves of four pre-Hispanic children has given an insight into the difficult living conditions that followed the fall of the Aztec Empire. Named after the property…
Archaeologists researching the ancient temple city of Heliopolis have made remarkable discoveries documenting intense temple construction activities in Ancient Egypt. Heliopolis - which literally means City of the Sun -…
The bones of the fallen soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo were sold as fertiliser, a new study has suggested. The study, which was published on 17th June, nearly 207…
An international team of researchers has authored a study claiming that they may have discovered what is possibly the oldest human fossils in existence in China. Researchers from the National…
A family building a toilet discovered bones from a mammoth in their garden. The remarkable find of the bones - believed to be up to 10,000 years old - was…
A monster dinosaur that ruled the world's seas 250 million years ago has been discovered at the top of the Swiss Alps. The fossil comes from a 60-foot ichthyosaurus and…