The iron “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign that spanned the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp has been stolen. “We believe that the perpetrators will be found soon and the inscription will be returned to its place,” said Pawel Sawicki, a spokesman for the Auschwitz museum. The sign was crafted in the summer of 1940 by […]

 A nine-ton granite temple pylon from Cleopatra’s palace complex has been lifted from Alexandria’s harbor.   A 4,000-year-old lentil discovered in Turkey has germinated. “Barley, lentil, wheat, all of these originated in Anatolia,” said Nükhet Bingöl of Dumlupinar University.   Two blocks of butter were found in early twentieth-century British explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s hut in […]