1,800-year-old altar to pagan god Pan hidden in a Byzantine church By Laura Geggel Archaeologists in Israel have found an ancient altar to Pan that was repurposed as a brick in a church wall.
Child's bones buried 40,000 years ago solve long-standing Neanderthal mystery By Peter Dockrill We don't know whether it was a boy or a girl. But this ancient child, a Neanderthal, only made it to about two years of age.
Gold coin stash from time of Henry VIII found in English garden By Laura Geggel A family pulling weeds in the garden discovered a hoard of gold coins featuring various British monarchs dating back to the 1400s.
The strange story of how nuns uncovered 'House of Jesus' in Nazareth By Owen Jarus A group of 19th-century sisters excavated and protected the House of Jesus in Nazareth. Here's their story.
Archaeologists find vast network of Amazon villages laid out like the cosmos By Laura Geggel The remnants of circular and rectangular villages dating to 1300 were discovered in the Amazon rainforest.
Who was Carl Linnaeus? By Tom Garlinghouse Carl Linnaeus, the famous 18th century Swedish botanist, created the basic foundation on which the modern binomial classification system is based.
Elaborate Viking ship burial may have held a king or queen By Stephanie Pappas Archaeologists have uncovered a 62-foot-long (19 meters) Viking ship that dates back more than 1,000 years and likely held remains of a king or queen.
Nazi 'Enigma' machine found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea By Stephanie Pappas Divers trying to remove old fishing nets from the Baltic sea have accidentally stumbled on a Nazi code-making "Enigma" machine.
The Falklands War: Margaret Thatcher's great victory By Nick Soldinger, History of War magazine In 1982, Argentina tried to reclaim the Falkland Islands from Britain, but was unsuccessful.
Roman subjects paid emperor piles of silver to leave them alone, inscription reveals By Mindy Weisberger A stone inscription immortalized Roman emperor Septimius Severus' gratitude for a city's generous "donation" of 700,000 silver coins.
Mysterious black spot in polar explorer's diary offers gruesome clue to his fate By Mindy Weisberger In 1907, explorer Jørgen Brønlund died during an expedition in Greenland. Scientists recently gleaned new details about Brønlund's death from a mark in his diary.
Sprawling 8-mile-long 'canvas' of ice age beasts discovered hidden in Amazon rainforest By Laura Geggel Ancient rock art of extinct ice age animals, handprints and patterns were found in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia.
Biblical Goliath may not have been a giant By Owen Jarus Goliath, the giant who was felled by King David in the Hebrew Bible, is described as having a jaw-dropping height. Turns out, that may not have been accurate.
Roman-era Egyptian child mummy scanned with laser-like precision By Mindy Weisberger High-energy X-ray scans of an intact Egyptian mummy mapped a detailed glimpse of the bones and objects inside.
2 of Darwin's famous notebooks, including iconic 'Tree of Life' sketch, are missing By Laura Geggel Two notebooks Darwin filled after his HMS Beagle expedition are missing, possibly stolen.
Americans celebrated Thanksgiving during a pandemic before. Here's what happened. By Brandon Specktor How did Americans celebrate the holidays during the influenza pandemic of 1918? With a lot of partying, turns out.
Margaret Thatcher: Facts about the controversial prime minister in 'The Crown' By David J. Williamson, All About History Margaret Thatcher was Britain's first woman prime minister, and one of the country's most controversial figures.
Pinwheel Cave rock art in California may depict hallucinogenic 'trance flower' By Laura Geggel Starting about 400 years ago, Indigenous people in California had hallucinogenic ceremonies in a cave by Santa Barbara.
Rebuilding Notre Dame will be incredibly hard By Stephanie Pappas A new documentary from NOVA shows the delicate and difficult work of restoring the Notre Dame Cathedral after the April 2019 fire that destroyed its roof.
Newfound corpses at Pompeii were a master and servant who died together By Stephanie Pappas Two victims were fleeing a suburban villa when hot ash swept in and buried them.
