The wreck of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese treasure ship seized by pirates in 1721, has been identified near ...

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called ...

Ball's Pyramid is uniquely composed of basaltic rock, characterized by a dark color and fine-grained texture, which has proven to be remarkably durable over the millennia. The most striking feature of ...

Liviu Librescu’s life was bookended by tragedy. As a Jewish child in Romania during World War II, Librescu was forced to grow up in a labor camp and a ghetto at the height of the Holocaust. He ...

Still, the gem’s origins aside, questions remain about this astonishing medieval ring. Researchers aren’t sure exactly who once owned the ring, and they’re not sure how it was lost. What is known is ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have announced the discovery of a massive library in the ancient city of Stratonikeia. Excavations have been ongoing for the past five years, and now researchers have mapped ...

Utility workers in Peru discovered the remains of a 1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy in the city of Lima. The workers found the mummy while digging trenches to expand the city’s natural gas network. The ...

Today, the town of Vergina is a quiet, unassuming place, despite the remarkable ancient monuments scattered nearby. Tucked into a quiet region of Greece, it has a population of just over 1,000 people.

Researchers Luis Raihofer, Martin Zarnow, Martina Gastl, and Mathias Hutzler echoed the same sentiment in their paper “A Short History of Beer Brewing”, published in EMBO Reports in 2022, which ...

After three years, archeologists determined that the Venus of Kołobrzeg is 6,000 years old and was likely created by one of the first agricultural groups to inhabit the Western Pomeranian region. The ...

According to a Facebook post from Roberto Gualtieri, Rome’s mayor, the giant marble statue head was uncovered during excavations of the city’s Via Alessandrina funded by Italy’s National Recovery and ...