Two 14-Year-Olds In Upstate New York Were Just Charged With Burning Down An Historic Mill That Opened In 1846 ...

Sarah Goode was one of several Black women who received patents in the 1880s. The year after Goode submitted the patent ...

They say everything is bigger in Texas. But during recent road construction in the state, archaeologists came upon a truly gargantuan discovery: the remains of a prehistoric giant ground sloth.

Between the mid-1910s and the 1930s, an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica (EL) spread around the world, affecting more than 1 million people and leading to an estimated 500,000 deaths. The ...

Hewn from white marble, Pauline Bonaparte reclines half-dressed on a settee, arm languidly supporting a noble head with elegant hair. Her posture and face show a level of pride befitting a depiction ...

During recent excavations in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David area, an archaeologist pulled a gold ring out of the dirt. At first, researchers thought that the ring, found in excellent condition, ...

In the aftermath of the shock and outrage of the Watergate scandal, there was also a mystery. Who was “Deep Throat,” the secret source who leaked information to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward ...

In 2015, two members of an Israeli kibbutz near Haifa spotted some intriguing wreckage off the coast. The ship was rapidly retaken by sand until the University of Haifa managed to launch excavations ...

When the United States was experiencing a meat shortage in 1910, a Louisiana politician named Robert Broussard suggested an unusual new food source: hippos. Today, the average American consumes almost ...

New research shows that swords forged in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 19th century were made by local craftspeople and not imported from Europe, as some experts had speculated.

In 1968, Võ Thị Thắng was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. She was only in her early 20s, but the prospect of losing her young adulthood to prison and torture didn’t seem to dishearten her in the ...

During excavations ahead of the construction of a tunnel on the coast of Sweden, archaeologists came across half a dozen shipwrecks deep in the mud. Representing several centuries of shipbuilding ...