The 1904 Olympics were the first to take place in the United States, and they established the tradition of awarding gold, ...

Centuries-old secret passageways detailed in Leonardo da Vinci's sketches were just found under Milan's Sforza Castle.

During renovations at St. Andreas Church in Eisleben, workers uncovered 816 coins hidden inside a statue during the Thirty ...

The octagonal-shaped tomb depicts tales with some very grim details, indicating that life definitely wasn't easy at the time.

More than 5,000 years ago, in ancient Egypt, a mixture of silica, lime, copper, and an alkali was heated, resulting in a bright blue compound known as calcium copper silicate. This striking, vibrant ...

Near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, a local resident discovered a small marble statue of a woman that had been left in a garbage bag near a trash bin. Unsure of what the statue was or why it had been ...

While excavating a filled-in moat at Visegrád Citadel in Hungary, researchers uncovered an artifact that illuminates the brutal realities of the Fifteen Years’ War, a conflict between the Ottoman ...

Famously mentioned in Hesiod’s Theogony in the 8th century B.C.E., Nyx is one of the oldest deities in Greek mythology. The primordial goddess of the night, Nyx gave birth to numerous offspring, who ...

Richard Wershe Jr. became the FBI's youngest informant, uncovered the biggest Detroit police scandal in the city's history, and was arrested for drug trafficking — all before the age of 18. In 2018, ...

On a spring night in 1968, the world changed forever. Televisions buzzed and radios crackled as the news spread across the country: Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader who’d given the ...

Few figures in maritime history are as shrouded in mystery and controversy as Captain Kidd, a man whose life straddled the line between privateer and pirate, hero and villain. William Kidd began his ...