1,500-year-old stone mosaic buried in ash
A painting in the background of an old church that burned could describe the story of Jesus distributing food.
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A painting in the background of an old church that burned could describe the story of Jesus distributing food.
Thousands of years ago, Egyptian mummy traders killed wild crocodiles by smashing their skulls and quickly processing them to mummify them.
Egyptian authorities opened two 3,400-year-old mummified coffins on Sept. 21 to restore them to their perfect preservation.
A new Renaissance painting masterpiece was discovered in the kitchen of an elderly woman in a town near Paris, France.
Fossils of teeth, battleships and backbones belonging to crocodile-like creatures have revealed more about the prehistoric world.
The Incas once brought the bodies of sacrificed children to the volcano with the idea that being struck by lightning meant that the gods were satisfied.
The ancients could bury the ancient money, estimated to cost £ 50,000, out of concern
When workers accidentally found the body of a male, many people could not believe their eyes because the surrounding objects were still intact.
Mosasaur may be one of the most feared reptiles living in the age of dinosaurs, with its enormous size and jaws.
Dolmen of Guadalperal - a thousand-year-old Spanish tombstone with a ring of 150 standing stones for the first time in the water in half a century.
Grave (grave robbery) is a story that has often taken place over thousands of years in China, especially in ancient times.
A giant creature, muscular, dagger-like claws ... probably the lost ancestors of the marsupial marsupial animals in Australia.
Scientists dive into the ocean to collect samples to learn the identity of the shipwreck off Rhode Island.
Archaeologists recently decided to open a mysterious box found inside the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
More than forty thousand years ago, the wilderness of Australia was also once inhabited by a powerful animal - ancient Kangaroos that are gigantic in size.