At least 2,970 silver coins dating back 1,000 years have been found near Rena, Norway, the largest Viking coin hoard ever ...

Using artificial intelligence, archaeologists recreated the final moments of a man who died during the eruption of Mount ...

In September 1982, 12-year-old Johnny Gosch disappeared while delivering newspapers in West Des Moines. Fifteen years later, his mother claims he visited her one night and told her he was the victim ...

Hecate’s name has been found on curse tablets, thin metal sheets on which residents of ancient Greece and Rome engraved ...

Indeed, at its peak, the British Empire was by far the largest empire in history. By the 1920s, it controlled more than 13.7 ...

Even after 2,200 years, the mummy of ancient Chinese noblewoman Xin Zhui a.k.a. Lady Dai remains so well-preserved that there's hair on her head and blood in her veins. Now more than 2,000 years old, ...

On March 21, 1947, an anonymous man called New York's 122nd Police Precinct to complain about the smell of decomposition emanating from the dilapidated old house at 2078 Fifth Avenue. Because locals ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy at Egypt's Al-Bahnasa necropolis with a papyrus containing text from Homer's ...

Archaeologists in Windisch, Switzerland found charred loaf of ancient bread among the ruins of the Romans' Vindonissa ...

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on an expedition in the Endurance to become the first team to make a land crossing of Antarctica. Their ship would become stuck in the ice and sink, ...

Belgium may not be the first European country that most people think of when they hear the words “blood-soaked colonial tyranny.” Historically, the little country has always been more famous for beer ...