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

As East Germany begins to construct the Berlin Wall, guards are sent to watch over the temporary line of barbed wire separating the east and the west. One East German guard, Konrad Schumann, takes ...

Although it's called the Golden Age of Hollywood, the harsh reality is that, for many actresses, life behind the glitz and glamour of the silver screen was difficult and rife with hardship. Some of ...

Archaeologists in Virginia have discovered the 18th-century foundation that once held the historic Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest known schoolhouse for Black children in America. Unearthed at ...

Since 2006, the ancient city of Olympos in present-day Turkey has turned up a number of incredible archaeological finds. During the most recent excavations at the site, this trend continued with the ...

For much of the 20th century, the book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself was thought to be a 19th-century work of fiction about the life of an enslaved woman written by a white ...

Dating to 7500 B.C., these figurines were crafted only about a century after human depictions became more common in the Early Neolithic groups of Western Asia. While the objects alone don’t portend ...

If anyone should be credited with introducing the Hawaiian tradition of surfing to the masses, it’s Duke Kahanamoku. He grew up on the outskirts of Waikiki, where he first fell in love with surfing.

According to the Moesgaard Museum, the Viking graves were found in Lisbjerg, Denmark, near the location of a previously discovered Viking farm. The 30 graves at the site date back to the second half ...

Discover the full story behind the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the presidential hopeful who was shot dead while on the campaign trail in California on June 5, 1968. By June of 1968, the United ...

The remains of a pair of well-preserved prehistoric canines found in northern Siberia in 2011 and 2015 have now been identified as wolves – not dogs, as previously thought – following a newly-released ...

Routine dredging work in the Netherlands’ Korte Linschoten River in March 2024 led to the discovery of a rare, 1,000-year-old sword with an “endless knot” motif engraved on its blade. The symbol is ...