Excavations at the Neolithic settlement of Çayönü Tepesi in southeastern Turkey revealed a mining workshop filled with copper ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Automats were efficient vending machine-style restaurants that signaled to many Americans that the future in dining had arrived. So what happened to them? At the turn of the century, New Yorkers ...

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on an expedition in the Endurance to become the first team to make a land crossing of Antarctica. Their ship would become stuck in the ice and sink, ...

More than 20,000 people have vanished in the stretch of forest between Utqiagvik, Anchorage, and Juneau known as the Alaska Triangle — and some say paranormal forces may be to blame. The Bermuda ...

First opened in 1970 and shut down in 2011, the Élan School was the "last resort" for parents of teens with behavioral problems — and allegedly a site of systemic abuse. For some, the idyllic woods of ...