Archeologists have unearthed a mummy with a gold tongue in Alexandria, Egypt, at a site linked to the famous Queen Cleopatra VII.

'We have 40 sites from all over the world,' AVROD founder Jeremy Brooks said of his virtual reality travel programming. 'You can explore sites from almost 20 countries.'

To the uninitiated, they look like chipped rocks. To Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, they look like two-million-year-old messages from the dawn of human technology.

A Canadian woman says she's had nothing but bad luck, including cancer and financial woes, since taking artifacts from Pompeii in 2005.

A local found the shipwreck just a few metres off shore in Mallorca, near the tourist hotspot of S'Arenal Beach.

A Kurdish-German team of researchers made the discovery in the Mosul Dam reservoir on the banks of the Tigris River.

The researchers say they found evidence in North Dakota of the asteroid hit in Mexico, including fish with hot glass in their gills from flaming debris that showered back down on Earth.

Archeology and geomatics experts plan to survey a graveyard at Canada's first national historic site using ground penetrating radar and drones to map out the site and identify where exactly the unmarked graves are.

Archeologists have unearthed a fresco in Pompeii depicting the Spartan Queen Leda in an intimate moment with the god Jupiter, disguised as a swan.

In the aftermath of last summer's Kenow wildfire, archaeologists have discovered artifacts believed to date back to the 1700s.