• 66 statues of Pharaonic goddess Sekhmet discovered in Luxor, Egypt

• Dead Sea documents reveal 2,000-year-old Jewish family tale

• England's 4,500 year old Grime's Graves flint mine shaft opened to public in its original archaeological condition

• Heritage bodies have major task ahead saving mosques & secular buildings as Isil retreats

• Jihadist tunnels uncover Assyrian winged bulls in Mosul

• Exceptional grave reveals 7,000-year-old garments Stone Age man was buried in: embroidery, red deer teeth

• Where did the Scythians come from?

• Discovering evidence of Pre-Clovis people and waiting 40 years to be proven right: the Story of Jacques Cinq-Mars - A must read!

• Advanced Radar Tech Could Save Ancient City of Angkor's Collapsing Monuments

• 2,000 Year Old Road Discovered In Israel, including coins from 29 CE

• Archaeologists in Alaska uncover campsite used by survivors of doomed 1813 Russian ship

• Skeletons Found Under a Florida Wine Shop May Be Some of America’s First Colonists - The skeletons, found in St. Augustine, Florida, likely date to the first decades of the oldest European settlement in the United States.

• 13.000 year old pine forest discovered in The Netherlands

• Underground bronze treasures discovered in Chengdu, China

• First Viking Tower excavated in Denmark dates from 700s CE

• 770BC-256BC Tombs of noble women found in North China with bronze, jade, clay, bone burial wares and bronze musical instruments

• Tree ring study to establish date of Thera eruption which led to collapse of Minoan civilization: A turning point for Western civilization

• Peat bog study reveals raw materials were being mined in Upper Silesia, Poland 12,000 years ago

• Oldest-known Image of Confucius Found in Tomb of Disgraced Emperor. A hand-painted mirror, decorated with a painting of the philosopher, was discovered in the tomb of short-lived ruler Liu He.

• People Began Domesticating the Amazon Rain Forest 8000 Years Ago

• Their Hearts Were in It: One Renaissance Couple's Final Gesture

• Lusitania telegraph machine lost because lift bag burst during recovery mission which wasn't supervised by an archaeologist

• Recent study of Cambodia 550-meter stone staircase that's partly carved directly into large boulders

• Harbour wreckage very likely HMS Tamar, report finds

• Mapping an archeological dig in Ecuador

• Tree scars record 700 years of natural and cultural fire history in a northern forest

• Fabled 'Atlantis Alloy' Recovered in Greater Numbers From Ancient Shipwreck

• America’s first immigrants had to wait 8,000 years to be admitted

I'm sure I'm not the only one to have just seen this on the front page, but does anyone know more about the Knight's Templar cave?

Edit: Maybe I (and you, BBC) shouldn't reflexively post shit. Is this actually a discovery? The ceiling is covered in graffiti scratches that look pretty new. Or was there a Templar named "Mat" who really liked pentagrams?