A 400-yard naked “Green Goddess” is to be carved into the Northumberland landscape, under a new plan revealed by a mining company.

Dubbed the “Goddess of the North”, Northumberlandia will be made from two million tonnes of earth dug out from an open cast mine in Cramlington, and tower 112ft into the northern sky.

The Goddess, designed by artist Charles Jencks, will recline over the Shotton open-cast mine and form the centre piece of a new public park at the site.

PRECIOUS archaeological treasures could be destroyed by a proposed 12,000-home development to the east of Swindon

Experts have made imaginative use of technology (above) to reveal secrets of the buried Roman tribal town in Caistor St Edmund

ROME — For decades now, excavations in the Roman Forum and on the Palatine Hill have yielded grand halls and imperial residences with fanciful frescoes and graceful stucco reliefs.