The Auto Union D-type racer is one of the rarest vintage cars in the world, and one of Hitler’s favourites. Now you can own it…for nearly $9 million.

When the Red Army overran Berlin at the end of the war, all Silver Arrows cars were immediately shipped back to the NAMI motor research institute in Moscow to be reverse-engineered: a brutal process that destroyed almost all of them, one being chopped in half to serve as a trailer for an apparatchik’s car.

Nobody knew this chassis – number 19 – had survived, until American car enthusiast Paul Karassik tracked it down, adding an original engine from a separate D-type carcass and handing it over to British Silver Arrow specialists Crosthwaite and Gardiner to restore to its original form.

Mental_Floss has compiled a list of 6 classical works created by masters that were previously lost.

While specific events in history have played a major part in the disappearance of many classical works of art, literature and music (the burning of the Library at Alexandria, for instance), sometimes these things are lost to time, poor preservation or deliberate destruction. And sometimes, they show up in unexpected places or under interesting circumstances, like these six.

An ancient Burmese temple has collapsed in Myanmar during restoration efforts, killing at least two people.

The tall, bell-shaped structure, called a stupa, collapsed because of age and deterioration, said a temple official, Tin Tin Win. Damage to the Danok temple was detected in 2006.

Tin Shwe said most of the victims were navy personnel doing reconstruction work on the temple, located in the southern part of Yangon. Military personnel often work on public projects in Burma.

Villagers from nearby communities were also assisting in the effort.

Construction works in Monterey, California, stumbled across the skeleton of a female who may have lived thousands of years ago.

Frank Donangelo, vice president of planning and development for the Cannery Row Company, says workers stopped digging immediately after finding the remains on Wednesday and called police.

The coroner and a pathologist were called in, and determined that the bones are ancient, and those of a woman who may have been a member of the Esselen Indian tribe. Other tribal artifacts have been uncovered near the site during previous construction.

Archaeologist Susan Morley is working on the site, and plans to continue the dig Monday. Morley could not say how old the remains are, but bones found at the site previously have been dated from 2,000 to 6,000 years old.

Researchers have learned how to recreate a long-forgotten Roman instrument called the Lituus.

Until now, no one had a clear idea of what this instrument looked or sounded like.

But researchers at Edinburgh University developed a system that enabled them to design the Lituus from the best guesses of its shape and range of notes.

The result was a 2.4m (8ft) -long thin straight horn, with a flared bell at the end.