Amazingly Preserved 3,000-Year-Old Statue Of Water Goddess Unearthed

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The 3,000-year-old clay figurine that was discovered at an excavation site in the Schweinfurt region, on the edge of the Unkenbach plain that is now Monchstockheim in Germany. (Axel Konig, StMWK/Newsflash)

An astonishingly well-preserved 3,000-year-old statue of a magical water goddess has been unearthed by amazed archaeologists in Germany. The clay figurine was found in a stream where a prehistoric riverside…

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Tragic Last Snap Of Mountaineer Before Avalanche Swept Him Away

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The last selfie of Filippo Bari (27) from Vicenza who is among the victims of the glacier disaster in Marmolada. (Newsflash)

A young mountaineer took this grinning selfie and sent it to his family moments before he was killed in an avalanche. The deadly ice, snow and rock slide was triggered…

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Survivor Of Costa Concordia Cruise Ship Disaster Receives GBP 80K In Compo

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Costa Concordia, the ship involved in a accident on the Island of Giglio, Italy, on 13th January 2012, the Court of Genoa granted Ernesto Carusotti, one of the EUR 77 thousand in compensation, in December, 2021. (Newsflash)

A survivor of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster in 2012 has received nearly GBP 80,000 in compensation for ‘post-shipwreck stress’. The Costa Concordia cruise ship struck an underwater rock,…

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Zoo Surprises Adorable Polar Bear With Giant Frozen Salmon Cake For Second Birthday

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Finja's mother Nora, who also joined the salmon cake celebration in the Vienna Zoo in Austria. (Daniel Zupanc/Newsflash)

This is the moment a polar bear tucks into her giant frozen salmon birthday cake that was skilfully shaped into the number '2' to represent her age. The footage of…

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Archaeologists Extract 30 Titanosaur Dinosaur Eggs From Huge Block Of Rock And Expect To Find 70 More

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The first extracted titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg near Huesca in northern Spain. (Universidad de Zaragoza/Newsflash)

Archaeologists have extracted 30 titanosaur dinosaur eggs found in a two-tonne block of rock in northern Spain and believe there could be as many as 70 more deeper inside the…

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The Martian Surface Was Shaped By Immense Floods That Created Deep Chasms And Valleys

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Craters and river valleys on the surface of Mars. A breached crater lake and outlet valley are outlined in white.

Many of the deep chasms found on the Martian surface were formed by massive floods from crater lakes that cracked through rock and shifted sediment 3.5 billion years ago. The…

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Moment Sneaky Fox Steals Camera From Unsuspecting Tourist Filming Volcanic Eruption

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A fox stole a video camera from tourists on the ground in Kamchatka, Russia.

This footage shows a sneaky fox running up to a camera that a tourist had placed on a rock to film a volcano and grabbing it between its jaws before…

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Meteorite Worth GBP 260K Found In Sack Of Coal Bought For A Few Quid

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A presumed meteorite - 8 kilograms (17.6 pounds) has been apparently found in a coal bag that Yakup Ermis bought to burn in the winter in Diyarbakir, Turkey, in 2021.

A Turkish man furious at being ripped off when he found a black rock inside a bag of coal he bought for GBP 4 was amazed when he discovered it…

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Tourists Flock To Ancient Rock Apartment Complex During Pandemic

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The 3,000-year-old Avdalaz Castle in Afyonkarahisar in Turkey, the building which has a height of approximately 30 meters, used during the Phrygian, Roman and Byzantine periods, attracts great attention from tourists with the shape and tuff rock structure, with multi-room and multi-storey cistern, reached by a ladder from inside

This 3,000-year-old rock formation called Avdalaz Castle - considered one of the world’s first multi-storey apartment complexes - has continued to attract hordes of tourists during the pandemic. The ancient…

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Treasure Hunters Damage 1,800 Year Old Hercules Rock Temple In Turkey

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1,800-year-old Hercules rock relief from the Roman period was attacked by treasure hunters in the Iznik district of Bursa

These images show the damages to this 1,800-year-old rock relief of Hercules damaged by treasure hunters who took pieces of the face in Turkey. The rock relief is located in…

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