This 2,700-Year-Old Tomb Just Uncovered In Turkey May Belong To A Family Member Of The Legendary King Midas ...

A dough kneader, a folding bed, and a corn husking machine. These were among the first inventions patented by Black women in the years following the Civil War. Sarah Goode was one of those inventors.

John Nash was a brilliant mathematician who is best known for his contributions to game theory. However, his academic career was curtailed due to his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia, which caused ...

They say everything is bigger in Texas. But during recent road construction in the state, archaeologists came upon a truly gargantuan discovery: the remains of a prehistoric giant ground sloth.

Between the mid-1910s and the 1930s, an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica (EL) spread around the world, affecting more than 1 million people and leading to an estimated 500,000 deaths. The ...

Hewn from white marble, Pauline Bonaparte reclines half-dressed on a settee, arm languidly supporting a noble head with elegant hair. Her posture and face show a level of pride befitting a depiction ...

In the aftermath of the shock and outrage of the Watergate scandal, there was also a mystery. Who was “Deep Throat,” the secret source who leaked information to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward ...

During recent excavations in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David area, an archaeologist pulled a gold ring out of the dirt. At first, researchers thought that the ring, found in excellent condition, ...

In 2015, two members of an Israeli kibbutz near Haifa spotted some intriguing wreckage off the coast. The ship was rapidly retaken by sand until the University of Haifa managed to launch excavations ...

When the United States was experiencing a meat shortage in 1910, a Louisiana politician named Robert Broussard suggested an unusual new food source: hippos. Today, the average American consumes almost ...

Twelve-year-old Mary Beatrice Kenner had an unusual hobby. She enjoyed wandering the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C., wondering if she might one day hold a patent for one of her ...

During excavations ahead of the construction of a tunnel on the coast of Sweden, archaeologists came across half a dozen shipwrecks deep in the mud. Representing several centuries of shipbuilding ...