German climate activists have dyed the waters of a UNESCO World Heritage Site vivid green to raise their voice against a chemical company's environmental impact. Visitors to Bergpark Wilhelmshoehe in…
A spooky German castle with its own pint-sized poltergeist has been named a UNESCO World Heritage site. The fairy-tale turrets of Schwerin Castle, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State, survived two world…
A magnificent long-lost 900-year-old Crusader altar has been discovered hidden behind a stone slab covered in graffiti in Jerusalem, it has emerged. The marble altar was created by Christian crusaders…
A Kazakh tourist is in trouble after he was caught carving his name, 'Ali,' on an ancient wall in Pompeii. The man was reportedly caught red-handed damaging one of the…
An ancient graveyard with bodies buried wrapped in ritual birch bark has been unearthed by archaeologists under a burned-down church in Russia. The cemetery, which dates back to the 1100s,…
An ancient chess knight dating back 1,000 years has been unearthed by archaeologists in the ruins of a long-lost castle in Germany. The previously unknown site, in the mountains of…
At least three construction workers have died in a devastating accident after a scaffolding collapsed at a construction site in Germany. The three workers whose identities were not revealed by…
These are the incredible Graeco-Roman ceramics and amphorae unearthed at an archaeological site in Egypt. The find was made by a joint Egyptian-Italian archaeological mission at the Tel El-Maskhuta site…
History when the brutal ancient past of Mexico's Mayan people is seen again for the first time in more than a thousand years. The sculpture was unearthed during preservation work…
A Nazi World War II treasure map showing the site of buried chests of gold and jewels has been made public by officials in the Netherlands. The seven chests are…