LiveScience reports that a team of researchers analyzed ancient remains found at the Cooper’s Ferry archaeological site ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...