A 2,500-year-old Hebrew Torah embroidered with gold on gazelle skin has been seized by the Turkish police after they tracked down five suspects attempting to sell it on the black market. After becoming aware of the suspected crime, police teams tracked the suspects to the southern Turkish city of Antalya. The police discovered that the gang was taking the Torah to the northern Turkish city of Samsun where they were planned to sell it. NewsflashThe 2,500-year-old Hebrew Torah embroidered with gold on gazelle skin, that has been seized by the ...

A German Museum has restored and put on display this extremely rare fibreglass dress which was worn by a Spanish Princess in Chicago over a century ago and had been badly damaged during a World War II air raid. The fibreglass dress was worn at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago by the Spanish Princess Infanta Eulalia in 1893 and went on exhibition in the German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology, in the southern Bavarian capital Munich, on 23rd March. The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the ...

These images capture the restoration of an ancient 4,000-year-old dugout canoe which was salvaged from the bottom of a lake in southern Germany. The 4,000-year-old canoe was discovered in Lake Constance located on the borders between Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. The German state of Baden Wurttemberg which is carrying out the restoration project announced that it would begin the restoration process of the eight-metre (28-foot) canoe on 31st March. In a statement obtained by Newsflash Katrin Schutz, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Economics Baden-Wurttemberg provided more details about ...

Turkish smugglers have been caught in the act by Gendarmerie teams when they tried to sell a valuable Roman-era statue. Turkish Gendarmerie teams received the notification that two alleged smugglers, identified with their initials as A. B. and M. E. B., had a historical statue that they intend to sell in the district of Mudanya in the north-western Turkish province of Bursa. Gendarmerie teams started watching the smugglers' vehicle. During the surveillance operation it was determined that the suspects were going to sell the statue in a restaurant in the ...

NewsflashPicture shows the 26.5-metre high lighthouse, which was built by Emperor Nero in the ancient city of Patara in 60 AD, and was destroyed by a tsunami in 1481. (Newsflash) Archaeologists have used artificial intelligence to identify where all the stones go in order to reconstruct an ancient lighthouse originally built on the orders of Roman Emperor Nero. The ancient lighthouse was destroyed by a mediaeval tsunami but most of the stones remain scattered at the scene and the team have now used artificial intelligence to work out which pieces ...