Metal detectorist Constantin Fried found a miniature lock dating to the Roman era while exploring a field near ...

As soon as he realized that the Titanic had struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, John Jacob Astor IV sprung into action. He roused his pregnant wife, told her to put on her warmest ...

The phrase “going postal,” which means to become uncontrollably angry, appeared as a slang term in American English in the 1990s. It emerged after a spate of shootings at post offices carried out by ...

Archaeologists and historians have always known that Abarkuh, Iran, was an important historical city. Situated within the “golden triangle” of Shiraz, Yazd, and Isfahan, it functioned as a settlement ...

The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings in the world, but few know about the woman depicted in it. Lisa Gherardini, a 16th-century noblewoman from the Republic of Florence, is long believed ...

In March 1977, a teacher at McKinley High School in Honolulu made a shocking discovery in the school’s English building. Lying deceased and partially clothed on the floor was 16-year-old Dawn Momohara ...

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

The Ark of the Covenant is one of the most sacred relics of Jewish and Christian tradition. The chest is said to hold the stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were originally inscribed, and ...

In July 1991, Desiree Washington, an 18-year-old contestant in the Miss Black America pageant, met boxer Mike Tyson during a rehearsal for the event in Indianapolis. When the celebrity athlete called ...

Human sacrifice is a well-documented aspect of pre-Columbian history, and a recent excavation in Ecuador may have uncovered one of the most enigmatic examples yet. Archaeologists in Buen Suceso ...

In 1983, archaeologists excavated Kruger Cave in South Africa and found a 7,000-year-old femur bone that belonged to an antelope. Researchers then noted something unusual about the bone: three bone ...