This statue of the Virgin Mary with a baby Jesus which is believed to be over 800 years old has been pulled from a Spanish river after it was spotted by a fisherman tripped up on it. Fisherman Fernando Brey Quintela spotted the statue as he was fishing in the…
Archaeologists have found this 2,000-year-old map carved into a stone - and it is believed to have been used to pass on information about the land to future generations by the pre-Hispanic inhabitants of southern Mexico. The carving was found in the village of Suchitlan in the state of Colima…
Argentine palaeontologists have identified this tiny bone from a frog which lived 2 million years ago after a family found it when digging a well - and experts say it could belong to a previously undiscovered species. The tiny bone was discovered as the Bastia family were digging a well…
A fisherman has found the wreck of a 200-year-old ship that may have been British off the coast of southern Mexico. The wreck, which sank over two centuries ago after hitting a reef, was found about 35 kilometres from the coastal village of Majahual in the south-eastern Mexican state of…
A Norwegian couple in the process of renovating their house has found an ancient Viking burial ground underneath their floorboards. The incident took place at the couple’s home in the town of Bodo in the northern Norwegian municipality of the same name when they removed the floorboards to put in…
