Archaeologists expect to find relics from the past, but not relics left behind by other researchers just like them. A team of student volunteers recently came across a particularly unusual artifact ...

In 1924, 14-year-old Bobby Franks passionately argued against the death penalty at a school debate. “Punishment should be reformative, never vindictive,” the boy declared. His older brother, Jack, ...

Women like Mae Capone and Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti stood behind their gangster husbands for better or for worse.

Pantelleria is a dot on the map, a tiny island located about midway between Sicily and Tunisia. But 2,000 years ago, it was likely the site of danger and drama, as a hoard of recently discovered Roman ...

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Assos in modern-day Türkiye have uncovered a 1,700-year-old Roman ringstone with a depiction of Athena, the goddess who was believed to have protected the city.

Though the RMS Carpathia was some 58 miles away when it received the Titanic’s distress call, the steamer navigated treacherous waters at top speed to reach the sinking ship — and managed to rescue ...

One of the most iconic images from World War II came not from the battlefield but from Adolf Hitler’s bathtub. In it, an American photographer named Lee Miller is seen casually soaking in Hitler’s tub ...

The concept of “blue zones,” or areas where people supposedly live longer and healthier lives, gained widespread attention after journalist Dan Buettner coined the term in the early 2000s and wrote ...

Small populations of Stone Age humans might have driven dwarf hippopotamuses and elephants to extinction on the island of Cyprus, according to a new study. Like other Mediterranean islands, Cyprus was ...

Scientists recently announced the discovery of several fossils from a massive mosasaur with giant, mushroom-shaped teeth in Texas. Among the finds were two adult jaw fragments that show off the sea ...

An eccentric nomad of American legend, Johnny Appleseed was said to plant apple trees throughout the frontier in the 19th century, but how does the history differ from the lore? Some may have learned ...

For years, historians have assumed that cocaine wasn’t widely used in Europe until the 19th century, after the German chemist Albert Niemann figured out how to isolate the drug from coca leaves in ...