The wreck of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese treasure ship seized by pirates in 1721, has been identified near ...

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called ...

Today, the town of Vergina is a quiet, unassuming place, despite the remarkable ancient monuments scattered nearby. Tucked into a quiet region of Greece, it has a population of just over 1,000 people.

Researchers Luis Raihofer, Martin Zarnow, Martina Gastl, and Mathias Hutzler echoed the same sentiment in their paper “A Short History of Beer Brewing”, published in EMBO Reports in 2022, which ...

According to a Facebook post from Roberto Gualtieri, Rome’s mayor, the giant marble statue head was uncovered during excavations of the city’s Via Alessandrina funded by Italy’s National Recovery and ...

After three years, archeologists determined that the Venus of Kołobrzeg is 6,000 years old and was likely created by one of the first agricultural groups to inhabit the Western Pomeranian region. The ...

Although it's called the Golden Age of Hollywood, the harsh reality is that, for many actresses, life behind the glitz and glamour of the silver screen was difficult and rife with hardship. Some of ...

Archaeologists in Virginia have discovered the 18th-century foundation that once held the historic Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest known schoolhouse for Black children in America. Unearthed at ...

Öztaşkın added: “Olympos continues to surprise us with its mosaics. In 2017, 2022, and 2023, we discovered richly decorated mosaic floors at the sites we worked on. This year, we uncovered and ...

For much of the 20th century, the book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself was thought to be a 19th-century work of fiction about the life of an enslaved woman written by a white ...

Dating to 7500 B.C., these figurines were crafted only about a century after human depictions became more common in the Early Neolithic groups of Western Asia. While the objects alone don’t portend ...