Recently, researchers Olena Veremeychyk and Olga Antowska-Gorączniak took a closer look at eight medieval discs discovered ...

The examination of a 99 million-year-old fossilized millipede trapped in amber is bringing scientists to rethink the evolution of the entire millipede species. According to a study published in the ...

Off the coast of southeastern Spain in 1994, archaeologists made a rare discovery: a largely intact Phoenician ship dubbed the Mazarrón II lying on the ocean floor. Over the past 30 years, the ship ...

Deep within a French cave, researchers may have uncovered the world’s oldest 3D map. While exploring the Ségognole 3 cave just south of Paris, scientists found engravings on its floor resembling the ...

Orichalcum is a metal shrouded in mystery. First mentioned by ancient Greek writers around the seventh century B.C.E., orichalcum was described as golden and almost otherworldly. The term itself ...

In 793 C.E., Vikings attacked a monastery on Lindisfarne, an island off the English coast. This marked the beginning of the Viking Age — and, seemingly, the influx of Scandinavian DNA into Britain.

Japanese history is filled with epic tales of warriors, but few have stood the test of time as well as the story of samurai Miyamoto Musashi — and his duel with Sasaki Kojirō, one of Japan’s greatest ...

While excavating a site ahead of planned development in Brittany, France, archaeologists made several exciting discoveries. They unearthed evidence of ancient roads, a hamlet, and molds used to make ...

Corporations, musicians, and even game designers faced allegations of dabbling in Satanism in the 1980s and 1990s as Americans seemed to see the devil around every corner — but why? In 1983, police in ...

In a bizarre case of rivalry and animal cruelty, a Texas teenager is accused of poisoning her rival’s show goat last October. Aubrey Vanlandingham, a 17-year-old cheerleader at Vista Ridge High School ...

Owen Vanessa Elliot was born into a life of music and fame. The daughter of Cass Elliot, one of the lead singers of The Mamas & the Papas, Owen was immersed in her mother’s world from a young age, ...