“I want to be, like, Beatles big, when it’s all said and done. I want to change what’s on the radio.” It was a lofty goal for anyone, let alone a kid who grew up in Point Breeze, a small neighborhood ...

In accordance with the Central Intelligence Agency’s long tradition of dreaming up bizarre and outlandish covert operations, declassified files have recently brought new attention to the agency’s ...

More than 2,000 years ago, a terrible massacre took place on the edge of a fortress in present-day Mongolia. A group of men were butchered, then buried in a mass grave. But until recently, ...

In recent years, Christopher Columbus has been increasingly considered more of a ruthless conqueror than a well-intentioned pioneer as taught to us in school. However, the explorer’s long-dismissed ...

For about a decade, treasure hunters everywhere searched feverishly for buried treasure in the Rocky Mountains. It had been hidden by Forrest Fenn, an art collector who had been inspired to start the ...

On a cold yet sunny afternoon in 2019, Mark Sell decided to go for a walk with his metal detector. A retired firefighter, Sell was sweeping his device across the ground when it started to faintly beep ...

Archaeologists searching the Judean Desert in hopes of finding additional Dead Sea Scrolls recently made an unexpected discovery of an ancient pyramid structure. Located 72 miles south of Jerusalem, ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence of a 555-million-year-old worm-like creature in Australia. As if that wasn’t exciting enough, experts believe this is the first ancestor of all animals — including ...

Beneath a stone foundation in Velzeke, Belgium, researchers recently made an astounding discovery: the well-preserved remains of an ancient Roman dog. This find was one of more than 700 relics dating ...

History is rife with tragic love stories, but few have the lasting impact of the story of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. While their relationship carried political weight, it was also romantic — and much ...

A team of researchers in New Zealand that was recently conducting tests on sharks never expected to make history — and capture the first recordings of shark sounds ever made. While examining various ...

With waves as tall as 100 feet and capable of moving as fast as jet planes, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami devastated more than a dozen countries and left nearly 230,000 people dead. On the morning of ...