Over 400 years ago, English explorer John Smith wrote of several Indigenous settlements along a river in modern-day Virginia.

For a newly discovered dinosaur that sported some flamboyant headgear, scientists chose the name Stellasaurus or “star lizard” in honor of the true Starman himself, David Bowie. According to the Daily ...

Archaeologists have discovered the 2,000-year-old wreck of an ancient Egyptian pleasure boat off the coast of Alexandria. A type of party barge known as a thalamagos, this vessel dates back to the ...

Found at the Roman ruins of Bononia in Vidin, Bulgaria, this 1,800-year-old gold ring is adorned with the image of a married ...

While tending to his flock near Kayacik, Turkey, a goat herder stumbled across something in the ground. By chance, the man ...

A sinkhole appeared on the Piazza della Rotonda after 40 pieces of its travertine marble cobblestones suddenly gave way.

In the mid-1960s, a neighborhood in San Francisco underwent a historic transformation that placed it at the center of the ...

A volcanic eruption in 1345 may have led to a famine, increased grain imports, and the spread of the Black Death.

The Kecksburg UFO incident occurred on December 9, 1965, when a fireball was spotted in the sky and seemed to land in ...

History classes tend to cover the major events from our past: wars, the founding of new nations, the exploration of unknown ...

The 1,800-year-old Ketton mosaic discovered at England's Rutland villa features a rare retelling of the Trojan War myth not ...

It’s said that when you hold a conch shell to your ear, you can hear the roar of the ocean. Now, researchers have proposed ...