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.
Recently, researchers Olena Veremeychyk and Olga Antowska-Gorączniak took a closer look at eight medieval discs discovered across Ukraine. For years, scientists believed these artifacts may have ...
After working with glow-in-the-dark paint containing radium while making watches, the so-called "Radium Girls" developed horrifying symptoms including teeth that fell out and bones that disintegrated ...
Some 250 miles south of Lima, Peru, not far from the shores of the Pacific Ocean, there is a great arid plane — the site of one of the world’s oldest mysteries. This is the home of the Nazca Lines.
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 ...
To this day, the death of Grigori Rasputin remains one of the most widely mythologized stories in modern history. On the night of December 29, 1916, a group of nobles who feared the powerful holy ...
“You know, it’s the saddest thing but it seems like everybody my mother ever gets close to dies,” Velma Barfield’s son Ronnie Burke once said, according to the Toronto Sun. “How could the good Lord ...
High in the Himalayan Mountains of India lies a small body of water known as Roopkund Lake. It’s just 130 feet across and 10 feet deep, but its glacial waters are crystal clear. Although it’s ...