The Local Europe https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Europe in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed 'Immense' collection of dinosaur footprints found in northern Italy Hundreds of metres of dinosaur tracks, complete with toes and claws, have been found in the Italian Alps in a region that will host the 2026 Winter Olympics. https://www.thelocal.com/20251217/immense-collection-of-dinosaur-footprints-found-in-northern-italy Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:59:34 +0100 immense-collection-of-dinosaur-footprints-found-in-northern-italy Two more victims of volcanic eruption found in Italy's Pompeii ruins Archaeologists at Pompeii said on Tuesday that they had uncovered two more skeletons in the ruins of the ancient Roman city wiped out by a volcanic eruption nearly 2,000 years ago. https://www.thelocal.com/20230516/two-more-victims-of-volcanic-eruption-found-in-italys-pompeii-ruins Tue, 16 May 2023 17:58:51 +0200 two-more-victims-of-volcanic-eruption-found-in-italys-pompeii-ruins New research claims Italy's Leonardo da Vinci was son of a slave Leonardo da Vinci, the painter of the Mona Lisa and a symbol of the Renaissance, was only half-Italian, his mother a slave from the Caucasus, new research revealed on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.com/20230315/new-research-claims-leonardo-da-vinci-was-son-of-a-slave Wed, 15 Mar 2023 10:57:25 +0100 new-research-claims-leonardo-da-vinci-was-son-of-a-slave