A search is underway for a suspect who whitewashed history by painting a 5.000 year-old-menhir completely white. Menhir's started appearing in the middle Bronze Age and are most commonly found…
A 30-year-old Canadian tourist has been booked by police in Rome after staff caught her carving her initials on a wall of the Colosseum. The woman was caught by a…
This Mayan corn god's head has been unearthed by archaeologists in Mexico who found it at the bottom of a pond representing the entrance to the underworld. The large, well-preserved…
The most complete embryos belonging to a duckbilled herbivorous dinosaur ever found have been unearthed by palaeontologists in China. The scientists - who published their findings in the journal BMC…
Archaeologists have unearthed what they say is the earliest use of wheels and wagons in northern Europes. Sets of tracks were uncovered in a cemetery near Kiel, Germany, dating to…
A huge bladder stone that looks like a giant potato has been removed from a Turkish man by stunned doctors. The operation took place in the Urology Department of Fatsa…
The huge, 36-stone leatherback turtle that was rescued in a Spanish port over the weekend has died shortly after being released to sea. The marine animal turned up at the…
This is the moment caring vets treat a huge, 36-stone leatherback turtle - which is listed as critically-endangered - after it became entangled in a fishing net at a Spanish…
This is the moment an extremely thin pit bull collapses to the ground while trying to eat after being found abandoned in an empty house. The pit bull, which is…
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…