During the roof repair of historical Oxburgh Hall in England, a trove of 15th century treasures were found that shine new light on Tudor Catholic persecution.

Newly discovered 2,000-year-old Indian graffiti in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, including eight inscriptions by one man, reveals ancient Indian tourists visited Roman-era Egypt.

A new study in reveals the staggering cost of Egyptian blue pigment in Pompeii's "Blue Room" - almost equivalent to a Roman legionary's annual salary.

A decorated bronze fragment discovered near Kletzke, Germany, may be the oldest known handgun in the country, predating the famous Tannenbergbüchse.

A rude Roman solider is said to have farted at a crowd of worshippers in Jerusalem, sparking a riot that killed 10,000 people!

A new study

Did a Benedictine monk create a machine that could see through time and capture the crucifixion of Christ? The chronovisor remains one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries, allegedly invented by Father Ernetti with Nobel Prize winners - then hidden away forever.

A remarkable million-year-old skull discovered in China has shattered long-held beliefs about human evolution, sugges: Human evolution theory has just been severely shaken by a revolutionary million-year-old skull discovery in China, which suggests human ancestors diverged at least 500,000 years earlier than thought.

A lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest, containing a portion of his treatise On the Sphere and the Cylinder, has been identified in Blois, France.

Bones unearthed in eastern Siberia could be the oldest modern humans outside Africa and the Middle East. The discovery would change thinking about the arrival of man in Siberia. Some of the recovered bones - dated to about 50,000 years ago