Switzerland officials said historical records indicate the remains of a Roman wall were excavated in the 1860s, but they had ...

A Swiss Alpine village has been buried by a massive debris field after a glacier collapsed on a nearby mountain. Reuters reports that 90% of Blatten, Switzerland is engulfed by ice, mud, and rock ...

The Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Valais region collapsed yesterday, sending millions of tons of rock, ice and scree hurtling down the mountain slope and into the valley below ...

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Like the enchanted gift in a fairy tale, a city will change you in ways you can’t predict, and not all of them will be kind ...

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Swedish archaeologists uncovered medieval monastery ruins in Derome, thanks to a history enthusiast's research of old maps ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...

Dr Florian Willet, 47, was arrested last year following the death of a 64-year-old woman using a Sarco suicide pod after she ...

A history buff with a metal detector recently led archaeologists to the site of a medieval monastery – all thanks to a strange symbol spotted on an old map. Arkeologerna, an archaeological ...