Archaeologists excavating near Tenosique uncovered burials that included three stingray barbs that were probably used in ...

Excavations at the Neolithic settlement of Çayönü Tepesi in southeastern Turkey revealed a mining workshop filled with copper ...

Disco Sally, whose real name was Sally Lippman, spent her final years partying at New York City disco clubs like Studio 54 ...

Archaeologists digging in Kolomna recently uncovered an enormous cache of silver coins stashed away during the early 1400s.

During the AIDS epidemic, Ruth Coker Burks personally cared for 1,000 AIDS patients and buried dozens in her family cemetery.

A man searching for car parts in a scrapyard near Hrubieszów, Poland, uncovered an iron shield fitting from the second ...

Scientists measure the expansion of the universe based on the constant of dark energy, but now experts say the mysterious ...

Dolly Parton was born in the Great Smoky Mountains of rural East Tennessee in 1946. Her parents were farmers and so ...

“A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans,” reported a ship captain in 1900. After a lighthouse went dark in the wild islands north of Scotland, a ship traveled to the Flannan Isles to ...

Botanist Robert Fortune was commissioned by the East India Trading Company to infiltrate China's tea industry and topple the country's monopoly on the beverage. Second only to water, tea is the ...

First opened in 1970 and shut down in 2011, the Élan School was the "last resort" for parents of teens with behavioral problems — and allegedly a site of systemic abuse. For some, the idyllic woods of ...

In 1983, a 61-year-old Australian potato farmer entered the first ultramarathon between Sydney and Melbourne. Few bet on the farmer winning the race. Not only did Cliff Young have a strange, slow ...