In April 2026, the FBI announced that it would be looking into the deaths or disappearances of 12 scientists, including ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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

Built in 1914, Pittock Mansion was nearly razed to create a subdivision in the 1960s before Portland residents came together to save it. Nestled in the Portland, Oregon’s West Hills neighborhood is ...

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

A village that was washed away by a devastating storm in 3838 B.C.E. has been uncovered along the shore of Switzerland's Lake ...

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 ...

In the early morning hours on November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed his entire family in cold blood — and claimed that demonic voices told him to do it. For decades, The Amityville Horror has ...

Thanks to record keeping, historical documents and word of mouth, there are interesting people from history that everyone knows about, like Galileo, Thomas Jefferson, Rosa Parks, or Henry Ford. Most ...