Archaeologists excavating near Tenosique uncovered burials that included three stingray barbs that were probably used in ...

Excavations at the Neolithic settlement of Çayönü Tepesi in southeastern Turkey revealed a mining workshop filled with copper ...

Disco Sally, whose real name was Sally Lippman, spent her final years partying at New York City disco clubs like Studio 54 ...

Archaeologists digging in Kolomna recently uncovered an enormous cache of silver coins stashed away during the early 1400s.

A man searching for car parts in a scrapyard near Hrubieszów, Poland, uncovered an iron shield fitting from the second ...

“A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans,” reported a ship captain in 1900. After a lighthouse went dark in the wild islands north of Scotland, a ship traveled to the Flannan Isles to ...

In 1924, British adventurer Frederick Mitchell-Hedges led an expedition to Lubaantun, an ancient Mayan city deep within the Yucatan jungle in modern-day Belize. There inside a Mayan pyramid, his ...

These Nazi propaganda posters are as repugnant in their message as they are impressive in their artistic craftsmanship. In order to control a population, you must first control the population’s minds.

The heart attack gun fired a dart made of frozen shellfish toxin that would enter the target's bloodstream and kill them in mere minutes without leaving a trace. In 1975, more than 30 years of almost ...

Today, Batavia is no more. This former Dutch colony in Indonesia exists only in glimmers on the streets of Jakarta. But those glimmers, however faint, tell a story of immense wealth and horrific ...

In 1983, a 61-year-old Australian potato farmer entered the first ultramarathon between Sydney and Melbourne. Few bet on the farmer winning the race. Not only did Cliff Young have a strange, slow ...

Forty years before the British fought the Nazis, they used history's first concentration camps to commit genocide during the Boer War.