Archaeologists diving near Kekova Island off Turkey's Mediterranean coast discovered a 4,700-year-old shipwreck that's ...
Built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II in the 1890s, the Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, is the epitome of a palatial Gilded Age ...
A 1,200-year-old burial with six sets of remains that was found at Čunkāni-Dreņģeri cemetery may hold the grisly aftermath of ...
In 2025, a man purchased Gertrude Abercrombie's 1951 painting "Alderman Merriam's Shells" in Michigan for $30 — and just sold ...
On April 2, 1993, Ellie Nesler walked into a small courtroom in Jamestown, California, and shot Daniel Mark Driver, the man who was accused of sexually assaulting her young son. Driver died at the ...
Researchers studying remains from the royal cemetery of Umm el-Qaab in Abydos found that the pharaohs were buried alongside ...
Archaeologists exploring Kvitingskjølen mountain recently came across dozens of prehistoric arrows dating as far back as ...
Archaeologists exploring the waters off Egypt's Mediterranean coast discovered a 1,900-year-old ring emblazoned with an image ...
The Amazonian Guard was formed around the 1980s to protect the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but little is known about the women who served him.
You know how some people can’t stop thinking about the Roman Empire? Well, for a growing corner of the internet, the Romans are yesterday’s news. The civilization that captures their imagination is ...
The phrase “going postal,” which means to become uncontrollably angry, appeared as a slang term in American English in the 1990s. It emerged after a spate of shootings at post offices carried out by ...
In today’s world, there’s plenty of jockeying over who is the richest person alive. But no one today can hold a candle to the net worth of Mansa Musa, an incredibly wealthy 14th-century Malian ruler.