An Irish farmer stumbles across a historic tomb that has remained largely untouched for 1000’s of years. The burial site was discovered on South West Ireland’s Dingle peninsula when an excavator overturned a large...
A 700,000-year-old human skull known as the “Petralona man” or “Archanthropus of Petralona” was discovered in 1959. Since then, scientists have been trying to find out where this skull originated from, which has prompted...
A sum of £150,000 (US$ 168,000) has been pledged to deep scan a hoard of mysterious artifacts found off England’s coast. The £150,000 grant from The Wolfson Foundation to the Historic England scientific and...
A California couple who discovered a $10 million cache of hidden gold coins might not be so lucky after all. According to a published article, the coins may have been stolen from the United...
When it comes to rich mansions and huge estates, the Biltmore Estate proudly holds the pedestal. With its 250 rooms, indoor swimming pool, huge collections of paintings and books, this estate has glamour written...
A wide region on the outskirts of Budapest is inhabited by abandoned locomotives and railway wagons. The Red Star Train Graveyard, formerly known as Istvántelek, is located here. This depot was constructed as a...
Archaeologists were called in when a worker stumbled across a number of strange artefacts in Africa, leading to what may be one of the most significant shipwrecks ever found. More than a century ago,...
The Uluburun is a 3,300-year-old shipwreck discovered off the coast of Uluburun (Grand Cape), near Kaş in south-western Turkey. It is among the oldest ships ever discovered and contained one of the wealthiest and...
Officials said Tuesday that archaeologists in southern Italy uncovered ancient warrior helmets and the ruins of a painted brick wall at a site that could have been a forerunner of a temple dedicated to...
The year that marked the middle of the 19th century was a turning point for most of the world ― just two years before, Europe was tangled in a series of revolutions that announced...
