A Swedish gardener dug up a thousand-year-old hoard of silver coins collected by Norse seafarers from places as far as away as present-day Iraq and Uzbekistan.
Natural formations or 5,000-year-old city ruins? Scientists are still divided over the origin of mysterious stone structures off the coast of Japan's Yonaguni Jima.
Stone structures lying off a tiny Pacific island continue to draw controversy over whether they are natural formations or the ruins of a 5,000-year-old city.
A bear, a beheaded caribou, a cigarette-smoking deity, and other wild wonders stalk our selection of winning pictures from the latest Banff Mountain Photography Competition.
Experts are warning of a "global extinction crisis" of the world's languages and have identified five hotspots where tongues are vanishing most rapidly.
A 2,200-year-old tomb has been discovered completely intact in Tuscany, revealing a mass burial dating back to the Etruscans, who ruled Italy long before the Romans.
Cracks in his skull and injuries to his brain suggest that a blow to the head added to the lethal arrowhead wound that killed the prehistoric man, researchers announced.
