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.

During renovations at St. Andreas Church in Eisleben, workers uncovered 816 coins hidden inside a statue during the Thirty ...

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

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 ...

Recently, researchers Olena Veremeychyk and Olga Antowska-Gorączniak took a closer look at eight medieval discs discovered across Ukraine. For years, scientists believed these artifacts may have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it buried the rich and poor of Pompeii alike in an avalanche of ash. But the eruption also preserved how some of the city’s wealthier citizens lived, as ...

Famously mentioned in Hesiod’s Theogony in the 8th century B.C.E., Nyx is one of the oldest deities in Greek mythology. The primordial goddess of the night, Nyx gave birth to numerous offspring, who ...