An infra-red satellite survey of Egypt has uncovered over 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements.
Three-dimensional mapping has been used to reveal a long lost city in the Guatemalan rain forest.
An expert in Mayan writing believes he has deciphered a code that will lead to eight tons of gold.
A woman who lost control of her left hand after surgery to cure her epilespy shares her story.
The lost tomb of the Roman emperor Caligula has been found at Lake Nemi, south of Rome.
A once-fertile land mass now swallowed by the Persian Gulf could have supported early humans.
Jupiter's southern equatorial belt which disappeared in May is showing signs of a reappearance.
NASA has greenlit an ambitious Mars mission designed to study how the planet lost its atmosphere.
Recently discovered letters and postcards have revealed the fierce competition between scientists.
Long-lost footage showing Neil Armstrong descending on to the lunar surface is to be screened in Sydney.
The highest known living tigers have been discovered high up in the Himalayas by the BBC's Natural History Unit.
A long lost language from Northern Peru has been found scrawled on the back of a 400-year-old letter.
A computer has successfully managed to translate an ancient written language used in Biblical times.
A woman has lost four stone after being hypnotised in to believing that she's had a gastric band fitted.
The undecipherable wording on a letter written by David Livingstone has been decoded for the first time.
A six-week dig has been planned to investigate the site that spans an area equivalent to 10 football pitches.
NASA have discovered the whereabouts of the long lost Lunokhod 1 that landed on the moon 40 years ago.
The long lost tomb of an Egyptian mayor dating back over 3000 years has been unearthed south of Cairo in Egypt.
Jupiter has lost one of its distinctive red stripes and scientists are perplexed as to what happened to it.
In an interesting twist a woman has lost weight after she was hypnotised in to believing she had a gastric band.