Disco Sally, whose real name was Sally Lippman, spent her final years partying at New York City disco clubs like Studio 54 ...

A man searching for car parts in a scrapyard near Hrubieszów, Poland, uncovered an iron shield fitting from the second ...

Archaeologists digging in Kolomna recently uncovered an enormous cache of silver coins stashed away during the early 1400s.

Archaeologists exploring a cave at Gedikkaya Hill found a collection of turtle figurines that served some unknown ritualistic ...

A passerby in the village of Virt found a 1,500-pound British naval mine likely deployed during Operation Gardening in 1944.

Laden with the $27 million treasure of King Charles I, the Blessing of Burntisland sank in Scotland's Firth of Forth in 1633.

Scientists measure the expansion of the universe based on the constant of dark energy, but now experts say the mysterious ...

During the AIDS epidemic, Ruth Coker Burks personally cared for 1,000 AIDS patients and buried dozens in her family cemetery.

Dolly Parton was born in the Great Smoky Mountains of rural East Tennessee in 1946. Her parents were farmers and so ...

The head of a 45-member clan in Scotland, Sawney Bean allegedly killed and cannibalized over 1,000 victims in the early 16th century. But did he even exist? The story of the treacherous and ...

In today’s world, there’s plenty of jockeying over who is the richest person alive. But no one today can hold a candle to the net worth of Mansa Musa, an incredibly wealthy 14th-century Malian ruler.

Many Americans are taught that the Pilgrims and Indians gathered for a historic feast at Plymouth in 1621, but the true story of the first Thanksgiving is far more complicated. For as long as anyone ...