Prosecutors in Milan are investigating claims that Italian civilians paid to be snipers for the Bosnian Serb army in Sarajevo ...

The humongous fungus in Oregon is the largest organism, by area, in the entire world — but most of it is invisible to the ...

After an 18th-century tomb collapsed at All Saints Church in Somerset, England, a hidden subterranean crypt was revealed just ...

Frausto explained that the colossal pile of skulls, which was unearthed at about 10.5 feet below street level, had been a ...

A hiker trekking through western Norway's Aurlandsfjellet mountains found an enormous 1,500-year-old reindeer trap made of hundreds of logs.

Found in Australia's Goldfields region, the Megachile lucifer bee has two horn-like protuberances at the front of its head that may be used to access flowers.

The discovery occurred at the historic Sivan temple in the village of Kovilur, located near the Javvadu Hills in Tamil Nadu’s ...

The decades-long debate on who's depicted in Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting The Origin of the World has seemingly come to an end. A French historian claims that he has inadvertently uncovered one of ...

The legend of Atlantis, a sophisticated island civilization said to have sunk into the ocean’s abyss, has intrigued scholars and enthusiasts for millennia. Originating from Plato’s dialogues, the ...

First opened in 1970 and shut down in 2011, the Élan School was the "last resort" for parents of teens with behavioral problems — and allegedly a site of systemic abuse. For some, the idyllic woods of ...

Teddy Roosevelt, Helen Keller, and other revered historical figures who supported the eugenics movement at the height of its pre-WWII popularity.

The Sea Peoples terrorized Egypt and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, but their identity and origins remain mysterious to this day. In the 12th century B.C.E., Bronze Age civilizations began ...