Centuries-old secret passageways detailed in Leonardo da Vinci's sketches were just found under Milan's Sforza Castle.

The 1904 Olympics were the first to take place in the United States, and they established the tradition of awarding gold, ...

Immortalized in HBO’s 2004 series Deadwood, Seth Bullock was a lawman, businessman, and — according to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt — a “true frontiersman.” During his time in Deadwood, Bullock ...

Near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, a local resident discovered a small marble statue of a woman that had been left in a garbage bag near a trash bin. Unsure of what the statue was or why it had been ...

Few figures in maritime history are as shrouded in mystery and controversy as Captain Kidd, a man whose life straddled the line between privateer and pirate, hero and villain. William Kidd began his ...

For more than 3,000 years, China’s oldest-known distilled spirit remained hidden inside a bronze, owl-shaped vessel unearthed within a Shang Dynasty tomb. Discovered in 2010 in Jinan, China, the ...

While excavating a filled-in moat at Visegrád Citadel in Hungary, researchers uncovered an artifact that illuminates the brutal realities of the Fifteen Years’ War, a conflict between the Ottoman ...

More than 5,000 years ago, in ancient Egypt, a mixture of silica, lime, copper, and an alkali was heated, resulting in a bright blue compound known as calcium copper silicate. This striking, vibrant ...

During an archaeological survey ahead of a neighborhood construction project in England, archaeologists came across the well-preserved skeleton of a Bronze Age woman. But that’s not all they found.

Richard Wershe Jr. became the FBI's youngest informant, uncovered the biggest Detroit police scandal in the city's history, and was arrested for drug trafficking — all before the age of 18. In 2018, ...

After working with glow-in-the-dark paint containing radium while making watches, the so-called "Radium Girls" developed horrifying symptoms including teeth that fell out and bones that disintegrated ...