“I want to be, like, Beatles big, when it’s all said and done. I want to change what’s on the radio.” It was a lofty goal for anyone, let alone a kid who grew up in Point Breeze, a small neighborhood ...

Beneath a stone foundation in Velzeke, Belgium, researchers recently made an astounding discovery: the well-preserved remains of an ancient Roman dog. This find was one of more than 700 relics dating ...

If someone asked you about your favorite food, a Cessna 150 airplane probably wouldn’t be the first thing that came to mind. For Michel Lotito, France’s Monsieur Mangetout (or Mr. Eat-All), a plane ...

Sisyphus appears in several Greek myths, though today he is often associated with just one. In the famous legend, he is punished by Zeus for cheating death and condemned to endlessly push a boulder up ...

For about a decade, treasure hunters everywhere searched feverishly for buried treasure in the Rocky Mountains. It had been hidden by Forrest Fenn, an art collector who had been inspired to start the ...

Perched on the Northumberland coastline, Bamburgh Castle looks as though it has been plucked straight from the pages of a medieval fantasy. Indeed, it is the fabled site of Joyous Gard, the fortress ...

History is rife with tragic love stories, but few have the lasting impact of the story of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. While their relationship carried political weight, it was also romantic — and much ...

In recent years, Christopher Columbus has been increasingly considered more of a ruthless conqueror than a well-intentioned pioneer as taught to us in school. However, the explorer’s long-dismissed ...

Imagine you’re walking down the street, and a car swerves and hits you. You die. Yet, in another reality, you may narrowly avoid the collision. The theory of quantum immortality suggests that your ...

More than 2,000 years ago, a terrible massacre took place on the edge of a fortress in present-day Mongolia. A group of men were butchered, then buried in a mass grave. But until recently, ...

Archaeologists searching the Judean Desert in hopes of finding additional Dead Sea Scrolls recently made an unexpected discovery of an ancient pyramid structure. Located 72 miles south of Jerusalem, ...

On a cold yet sunny afternoon in 2019, Mark Sell decided to go for a walk with his metal detector. A retired firefighter, Sell was sweeping his device across the ground when it started to faintly beep ...