For the next five years, a team of scientists and Egyptologists from the Getty Research Institute in California will intensively study, then attempt to preserve Tutankhamun's tomb - a great archaeological wonder of the world.

Evidence of mass cannibalism in which even children and unborn babies were on the menu has been uncovered in Germany by archaeologists.

Today marks 100 years since the first ascent of Mt Aspiring, New Zealand's highest peak outside the Aoraki-Mt Cook region.

An anti-apartheid musician huge in his homeland is now living quietly in our midst.

Known as the Main Street of America, on account of the myriad communities that prospered along it, Route 66 is perhaps the most famous road in the history of tarmac.

A slightly larger-than-life bronze statue of the gelding Phar Lap is today to be shipped to Timaru, near the famous racehorse's birthplace.

Walesa and Gorbachev join Chancellor Merkel on walk of memories.