Depending on whether you believe in the concept of heaven and hell, this news might interest you. In the United Kingdom, a rare seal that can offer you a fast track to heaven or lessen your time in purgatory is going up for sale.

Medieval seal that can help fast track a person's entry into heaven to put on display in UK

Archaeologists at Pompeii on Tuesday found two new skeletons of male victims who possibly perished during the earthquake that accompanied mega eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

Archaeologists find two new skeletons of males at excavation site in Pompeii

Archaeologists have found a flat, square block of a brownish runestone in Norway and claimed it to be the world's oldest, with inscriptions dating back to almost 2,000 years.

Archaeologists claim to have found world’s oldest runestone in Norway

Archaeologists discover stunning, rare mummy portraits in Egypt's Philadelphia

Florida is notorious for strange happenings, from fearless residents battling gators to wacky plans of "shooting down" hurricanes, the internet is full of at times unbelievable stories from the US state.

Florida beach chucks up a weird 80 feet object, what it is remains 'a mystery'

A team of Canadian researchers claim to have discovered two new minerals from their analysis of the world's ninth-largest meteorite discovered in Somalia. They indicate that a potential third new mineral might also be present in the 15-tonne meteorite that landed in east Africa, near the town of El Ali, in the Hiiraan region.

Analysis of meteorite reveals two alien 'never before seen on Earth' minerals

Iraq unveils archaeological park with 'monumental' ancient carvings

Archeologists have found a gold funeral mask that is believed to be approximately 3,000 years old. It was discovered in a tomb in the ancient noble city of Zhengzhou in central China.

Archaeologists unearth China's 'oldest gold object', a funeral mask

NASA is scheduled on Saturday to launch a probe toward clusters of asteroids along Jupiter’s orbital path. They are known as the Trojan swarms, and they represent the final unexplored regions of asteroids in the solar system.

Why NASA is launching a robotic archaeologist named Lucy

A 3D map has been unearthed in France which belonged to the Bronze Age and may be the oldest map to exist in Europe. Archaeologists in France found the Bronze Age stone, which they believe was earlier once unearthed in 1900 in the prehistoric burial ground in Finistère by Paul du Chatellier.

France: Archaeologists unearth 3D map from Bronze Age

A little while ago a group of archaeologists began excavating a piece of land near the iron age hillfort at Wittenham Clumps, the experts had not thought they would unearth such a startling discovery.

Archaeologists find unexpected iron age settlement in Oxfordshire

Egypt has unveiled a significant new archaeological discovery at the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, watch this report

Egypt: Archaeologists unearth 3000-year-old coffins in latest discovery