Researchers are convinced that a man in 19th century Iraq was the first — and possibly the only — recorded death caused by a meteorite.

Archaeologists working at the Paleolithic site of Gantangqing in southern China have discovered a rare collection of tools dating back up to 300,000 years. These are the oldest wooden implements ever ...

PhD student Victor Beccari discovered Sphenodraco scandentis after reuniting fossil halves stored separately at museums in London and Frankfurt.

A wooden human face dating back approximately 1,000 years was found at the bottom of Lake Lednica in central Poland. It was carved into a beam that was likely a remnant of the defensive ramparts of ...

Archaeologists working in the ancient Canaanite city of Gath in Tell es-Sâfi, Israel recently made a curious find when they discovered four female donkeys buried beneath a house. The donkeys appear to ...

Somewhere between man, beast, and divine existed a band of sisters in ancient Greek mythology. Boasting venomous snakes for hair and the ability to turn men to stone, the Gorgons were powerful female ...

The Roman poet Propertius called Cleopatra “the whore queen.” Cassius Dio referred to her as a “woman of insatiable sexuality and insatiable avarice.” They, and other Roman men like them, were largely ...

Jonestown, the site in Guyana where more than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978, has now opened up for tours.

A cache of 3,500-year-old sling stones found at Hisarlık Hill in Turkey's Çanakkale province could help prove that the Trojan War was real.

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science hosts an array of fossils and bones from the time before humans walked the Earth. The latest addition to the institution’s collection was found in an unexpected ...

From Nephthys, the ancient Egyptian deity who protected mummies, to the Aztec "Lady of the Dead," who continues to play a role in modern festivals, discover history's most fascinating goddesses of ...

In addition to cocaine, researchers found ketamine, Xanax, Valium, as well as banned pesticides and other harmful consumer products.