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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...