Construction work at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles has led to a startling discovery: millions of prehistoric fossils that experts are calling the “largest marine bone bed ever found” in ...

Angie Bowie was born Mary Angela Barnett in Cyprus to American parents. Growing up, she traveled around the world and fell in love with music, eventually immersing herself in the glam rock scene. In ...

Before the Fukushima disaster of 2011, the Tokaimura nuclear accident was the worst in Japan’s history. On Sept. 30, 1999, a combination of safety shortcuts, human error, and lack of oversight led to ...

In 1924, 14-year-old Bobby Franks passionately argued against the death penalty at a school debate. “Punishment should be reformative, never vindictive,” the boy declared. His older brother, Jack, ...

Researchers in Leipzig, Germany, recently uncovered a previously unknown piece of music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart himself. The manuscript dates back to 1780 and consists of seven miniature ...

Archaeologists expect to find relics from the past, but not relics left behind by other researchers just like them. A team of student volunteers recently came across a particularly unusual artifact ...

An Irish farmer recently uncovered an ancient slab of butter by “pure luck” on his Donegal farm. The nearly 50-pound slab of “bog butter” is currently undated, but historians believe it could date ...

Women like Mae Capone and Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti stood behind their gangster husbands for better or for worse.

Though the RMS Carpathia was some 58 miles away when it received the Titanic's distress call, the steamer navigated treacherous waters at top speed to reach the sinking ship — and managed to rescue ...

Pantelleria is a dot on the map, a tiny island located about midway between Sicily and Tunisia. But 2,000 years ago, it was likely the site of danger and drama, as a hoard of recently discovered Roman ...

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Assos in modern-day Türkiye have uncovered a 1,700-year-old Roman ringstone with a depiction of Athena, the goddess who was believed to have protected the city.

One of the most iconic images from World War II came not from the battlefield but from Adolf Hitler’s bathtub. In it, an American photographer named Lee Miller is seen casually soaking in Hitler’s tub ...