A team of researchers has seemingly located the wreck of the Koning Willem de Tweede, a Dutch merchant ship that was lost off the Australian coast in 1857. According to a new press release from the ...

Prehistoric wooden spears found decades ago in Schöningen, Germany were once thought to be around 300,000 years old. It was thus believed that they were made by an early human ancestor known as Homo ...

After the Dutch merchant ship Batavia wrecked near Australia in 1629, a mutiny prompted an all-out war that eventually left some 200 people dead. On October 29, 1628, the Dutch East India Company ...

Bartholomew William Barclay “Bat” Masterson was not a man easily defined. Throughout his life, he played several different roles, most notably a buffalo hunter, army scout, lawman, gambler, ...

San Teodoro cave in Sicily is one of the most important Pleistocene sites in the central Mediterranean. It’s been studied extensively over the years, with a special focus on a number of early human ...

In 1987, the British tabloid The Sun published a shocking story. Instead of juicy drama about Princess Diana’s troubled marriage, the public received the disturbing news that Nerissa and Katherine ...

Although it was not always obvious, the downfall of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany was a long time coming. The reasons for this were Hitler's aggressive expansionist policies and the ideology of the Nazi ...

These photos of Elvis Presley capture the tumultuous arc of his life and career, from "Heartbreak Hotel" and his marriage to Priscilla, to his drug use and early demise in 1977 at the age of just 42.

Over a century ago, a German archaeologist uncovered a sprawling ancient site in Cyprus, a temple known as the “Sanctuary of Apollo” that was filled with towering statues. However, he reburied the ...

The National Gallery in London has just purchased a striking 16th-century painting for $22 million. That alone isn’t all that unusual. But the painting itself certainly is, as is the fact that no one ...

Perhaps no one exemplifies the blurred lines between a Wild West lawman and an outlaw quite like Henry Newton Brown. Born in 1857 and raised in Rolla, Missouri, Brown was orphaned at a young age and ...

During a Boy Scout camping trip in 2001, 13-year-old Cody Clawson got lost in Yellowstone National Park. After spending more than 18 hours in the wilderness, Clawson was rescued by the last person he ...