https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed All mines need regular reinforcement against collapse, and Hallstatt, the world's oldest salt mine perched in the Austrian Alps, is no exception. https://www.thelocal.at/20180824/salt-of-the-alps-ancient-austrian-mine-holds-bronze-age-secrets Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:00:55 +0200 salt-of-the-alps-ancient-austrian-mine-holds-bronze-age-secrets A 300-year-old statue of the Virgin Mary has been found hidden in a chapel next to a Catholic church in Loretto, Burgenland. https://www.thelocal.at/20161024/sensational-300-year-old-madonna-found-in-burgenland Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:50:00 +0200 sensational-300-year-old-madonna-found-in-burgenland When police heard about the frozen corpse up in the Alps in September 1991, they opened a criminal probe. Murder it was, but the crime was rather old -- and the ultimate cold case. https://www.thelocal.at/20160919/stone-age-mummy-still-revealing-secrets-25-years-on Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:29:06 +0200 stone-age-mummy-still-revealing-secrets-25-years-on Archaeologists have unearthed gold treasure in Austria thought to be worth as much as €50,000. https://www.thelocal.at/20160609/gold-treasure-worth-50k-found-in-austria-archaeology-celtic-roman Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:43:50 +0200 gold-treasure-worth-50k-found-in-austria-archaeology-celtic-roman A medieval skeleton found with the remains of a wooden prosthetic foot in Hemmaberg, southern Austria, is a unique find and the oldest example of prosthesis use in Europe, researchers have said. https://www.thelocal.at/20160114/austrians-discover-unique-medieval-foot-prosthesis Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:48:12 +0100 austrians-discover-unique-medieval-foot-prosthesis When German tourists Erika and Helmut Simons found a human body in the Austrian-Italian Alps, they had no idea what they'd stumbled upon. This iceman was over 5000 years old - and was something archaeologists had never seen before. https://www.thelocal.at/20150917/5000-years-under-ice-tzi-europes-oldest-celebrity Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:57:47 +0200 5000-years-under-ice-tzi-europes-oldest-celebrity In a joint venture between Austria's Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, and Britain's Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, scientists have used new techniques to identify 15 previously unknown neolithic monuments which remain underground. https://www.thelocal.at/20140826/austrians-help-unearth-new-stonehenge-discoveries Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:11:00 +0200 austrians-help-unearth-new-stonehenge-discoveries