Tudor Close in Rottingdean, East Sussex, England, purportedly inspired the mansion in the board game Clue, or Cluedo.

The headdress, discovered at the Eilsleben settlement, suggests that Neolithic people traded with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.

Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...

Workers restoring the former house of Russian merchant Averky Kirillov uncovered a trove of silver coins from the Time of Troubles.

When Mauna Loa volcano erupted in November 1935 and threatened the local water supply, officials dropped bombs to divert the ...

For three years, Hannah Upp lived peacefully on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She loved her work, and was loved by ...

After using the "Relative Erosion Method" to uncover how old the Great Pyramid of Giza is, Alberto Donini suggests it may date to 22916 B.C.E.

The Brazen Bull, also known as the Bronze Bull, was a brutal torture and execution device allegedly used in ancient Greece. Created in the 6th century B.C.E., it was designed to be a particularly ...

Albert Einstein was one of the greatest physicists in history. But for years, parts of his private life remained hidden — including the fact that he had a daughter, Lieserl Einstein. Why was Lieserl a ...

Though police only connected him to three murders, Joseph Roy Metheny claimed to have slaughtered a total of 13 victims, some of whom he allegedly turned into patties that he sold to unwitting ...

On June 30, 1971, a Soviet retrieval team anxiously awaited the return of the Soyuz 11 cosmonauts in a remote region of Kazakhstan. A nearby recovery helicopter spotted the scorched parachute of the ...

It was a clash between ancient rulers that reverberated through history. In 530 B.C.E., a warrior queen met the king of Persia in battle. And only one walked away. By any measure, the Persians should ...