These photos show incredible, intact stone-carved theatre masks representing comedy and tragedy that have been unearthed in the ancient theatre of a 2,500-year-old city. Excavations in the ancient city of…
A five-leaf clover has been sold on a Swiss auction site for nearly GBP 1 million but the winning bidder reportedly regretted their move and retracted the bid. The incident…
This badge bearing the Great Seal of the USA - that also features on the one-dollar bill alongside a truncated pyramid topped with an all-seeing eye - has been unearthed…
Experts have discovered evidence of beer drinking in the south of China 9,000 years ago where people are believed to have drunk rudimentary beer from the pots in rituals to…
Excavations carried out in a Russian city have unearthed the remains of two dozen children and five adults executed by the Nazis. The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of…
A WW2 US areal bomb has been discovered during excavations at a construction site near a former Nazi tank factory that was regularly bombed by the Allies. The areal bomb,…
Malta has cleared the underwater site of a Royal Navy WWI minesweeping vessel that sank in 1916 of discarded fishing nets and other ‘ghost gear’. The Underwater Cultural Heritage Unit…
These images show how archaeologists have uncovered new treasures including a warship and a funerary site while searching the sunken ancient Egyptian city of Heracleion. The find took place in…
A well-preserved fossil of an unknown bird species which resembles the great tit has been uncovered at an UNESCO World Heritage site by German archaeologists. The well-conserved fossil of a…
This is the astonishingly well preserved 3,000-year-old bronze sword that was unearthed by archaeologists who were excavating a site that is set to be used for a future gas pipeline.…