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Historic center of San Gimignano
Unesco's Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization has succeeded in San Gimignano's Historical Center, Italy as a World Cultural Heritage in 1990.
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World Heritage
Mining area in the town of Roros - Norway
Unesco's Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization has recognized Norway's Roros Mining Zone as a World Cultural Heritage in 1980.
Archeology
ATM theft, accidentally ... collapsing treasure vault
Thinking that in a convenience store with an ATM, an unknown identity thief crashed a wall of a building in Dedham village (UK) during the night but failed to achieve it…
Archeology
Thousands of medieval jewelry were discovered underneath Scandinavian churches
Archaeologists excavated a large amount of coins, pearls and hairpins under the medieval church floor throughout Scandinavia.
Archeology
From 2 porcupines drowning, discover precious objects of VND 120 million
A retired couple has found an extremely rare 12th-century stone basin after draining its pond, the Daily Mail reported.
Archeology
Ancient chessboard in secret room in 13th century castle
Nine generals chessboards were found in the underground room connecting the castle on the Russian island to the nearby city of Vyborg.
Archeology
Mysterious church crypt 2,500 sets of remains
The basement is considered one of the two medieval chapels in England still keeping the original 'human remains'.
Archeology
The body of the medieval man fitted a knife instead of a hand
Scientists found the remains of a man who installed a knife for a prosthetic hand at the Longobard cemetery in northern Italy, Science Alert reported Wednesday.
Archeology
Why do medieval women have an alien-like skull?
In the past decades, experts and scientists have discovered some special tombs in Europe containing the remains of some women. What makes the experts notice is the shape…
Archeology
Scary healing ways in the Middle Ages
In the Middle Ages, people burned hemorrhoids with red hot iron, drilled holes in the skull without anesthetic, using sharp objects to remove the lens.
Archeology
Restoring the face of a woman who was supposed to be the wife of Jesus
In the medieval town in the south of France, the crypt beneath the church contains one of the world's most famous remains, including the skull and the bones belonging to…
Archeology
The con man found out about a thousand-year-old tomb
The story of how this thousand-year-old tomb was discovered also made people say:
Archeology
The girl discovered the treasure sword rumored to be King Arthur's
Little Jones had a happy vacation with her family to Lake Dozmary, Cornwall, England. However, both Jones and his family could not imagine that they had found a medieval…
Archeology
The silver mosaic sword remains intact after 800 years
The 13th-century sword with many silver mosaic carvings emerged between the bucket of excavator in the English golf course.
Archeology
'Fire snake' crawls from the medieval saint's leg
Italian researchers found the earliest description of worm disease only when studying a medieval painting.