A lavish burial site has been found in the ancient Macedonian capital of Aigai.

The find in the ruins of Aigai came a few meters (yards) from last year’s remarkable discovery of what could be the bones of Alexander the Great’s murdered teenage son, according to one expert.

Archaeologists are puzzled because both sets of remains were buried under very unusual circumstances: Although cemeteries existed near the site, the bones were taken from an unknown first resting place and re-interred, against all ancient convention, in the heart of the city.

Architectural plans for the Auschwitz death camp, discovered last year, have been presented to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Berlin.

The 29 sketches of the camp, which was built in Nazi-occupied Poland, date back to 1941, and include detailed blueprints for living barracks, delousing facilities and crematoria, including gas chambers.

The plans, which are signed by the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, and Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess, are to be displayed at Israel’s official Holocaust memorial.

Records of the Prisoners of War who were interned at Colditz Castle have gone online, 70 years after the war began.

The database – originally compiled by the Germans under terms of the Geneva convention requiring them to notify enemies about captured troops – helps bring to life tales told on screen, including The Great Escape and The Wooden Horse.

Among those listed are actor Desmond Llewelyn, famous for his performances as grumpy gadget inventor ‘Q’ in the James Bond films, but who in real life was captured in 1940 and held in notorious prison camp Colditz Castle for five years.

Australian palaeontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur on a sheep ranch in Queensland.

The fossil remains of the large plant-eating sauropod, nicknamed Zac, are about 97 million years old. They were found near the town of Eromanga, in a fossil-rich area that was once covered by a vast inland sea.

Palaeontologists say the find confirms Australia’s importance as a centre for dinosaur discovery.

The markings found on a set of giant 16th century medallions in Stirling Castle have been found to be the oldest written instrumental music in Scotland.

Mr Donaldson found a sequence of ‘0’s, ‘I’s and ‘II’s carved round the edge of head number 20, which bears the image of a woman’s face. He contacted Barnaby Brown, a lecturer at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, who specialises in early Scottish music.

Mr Brown recognised the similarity of the sequence to rare Welsh notations, which were previously thought to be the earliest markings of their kind in Britain