Experts have unearthed 73 fossilised dinosaur eggs on a university campus from a species that was an ancestor of today's birds from the Cretaceous period 85 million years ago. The…
This is the moment a pot of 1,000-year-old Chinese coins is unearthed by roadworks nearly two decades after a similar discovery was made just 300 feet away. The trove of…
This is the 3,600-year-old mummy of a teenager discovered in Egypt with her bridal clothes and jewellery intact despite the tomb having been raided in the past. The discovery took…
This is the moment two villagers dig up an abandoned newborn boy who was mistakenly buried alive in a cardboard box because his family thought he had died. The recently…
These images show a Roman chariot complete with the fossilised remains of horses which archaeologists have found as part of a burial ritual for “extremely wealthy families”. Archaeologists from the…
This is the moment divers unearth two of eleven cavalry swords from the Napoleonic period that have been found on the seabed in the Spanish Balearic Islands. The incident was…
These images show pristine wall art and delicate earthenware inside a stunning thousand-year-old imperial tomb unearthed by builders creating a school sports field. The underground chamber - believed to be…
Archaeologists have discovered this medieval sword created by a master smith for an esteemed knight during a dig at a castle in Spain. The well-preserved sword was discovered during a…