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Legendary lost city swallowed by the North Sea is mapped at last

One local legend suggests that a priest asked by drunken local young men to give the last rites to a pig prayed for God to punish Rungholt, shortly before the storm tide arrived...

How many shipwrecks are there in the world’s oceans?

There are plenty of submerged wonders still waiting to be discovered

The Holy Grail: Could Valencia’s Sacred Chalice be the One? (video)

Often shrouded in enigmatic tales and elusive quests, the search for this legendary artifact has persisted through the ages

The dark discovery of Mexico’s huge tower of human skulls (video)

Unearthed during restoration work in 2015 archaeologists have painstakingly unearthed over 600 skulls piecing together the puzzle of its construction & significance

Incredible – Lower Paleolithic Tools dated to 700,000 years ago discovered in Greece (photos)

The experts think that the tools may have been produced by Homo antecessor, a hominin species that lived in Europe

Archaeologists excavate earliest Greek Iron Age house ever found in Thorikos

The nearly 3,000-year-old house was unearthed in an area where silver mining was common in ancient times

The Greeks really do have near-mythical origins, ancient DNA reveals (photos)

DNA analysis unearths origins of Minoans & Mycenaeans, the first major European civilizations

King Tutankhamun’s face is seen for the first time in over 3,300 years (photo)

Incredible reconstruction reveals the Egyptian pharaoh looked 'more like a young student' than a king

Caesars loved tweezers! Plucking Romans were obsessed with hair removal

Vanity & Plucking: A public & private obsession

Hegra, Petra’s forgotten twin (video)

Like Petra, Hegra boasts stunning sandstone cliffs and carved rock formations that have withstood the test of time

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