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

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

The octagonal-shaped tomb depicts tales with some very grim details, indicating that life definitely wasn't easy at the time.

The Sac Actun cave system in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has served as a treasure trove of ancient remains since 2007 when researchers found the skull and bones of a teenage girl who lived in its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stunning medieval wall paintings inside France’s Angers Cathedral remained hidden for centuries. But now, for the first time, conservators from the University of Cambridge’s Hamilton Kerr Institute ...

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 ...

The Aztec deity Xolotl was seen as the twin brother of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god linked with life and light. In many ways, Xolotl was Quetzalcoatl’s opposite. He was associated with ...

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.

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 ...