The 1950s were partly defined by the geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union — better known as the Cold War. The Cold War, and American concerns over the rise of communism ...

Most people have, at some point, seen something vaguely person-shaped lurking in the dark. Perhaps it’s just a shirt hung on the back of a door or a stuffed animal propped up in the corner. Most of ...

Archaeological excavations at the former Animal Husbandry Center of Nescot College that were conducted in 2015 revealed a startling mystery: a Roman-era quarry pit filled with a staggering number of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A team of researchers in New Zealand that was recently conducting tests on sharks never expected to make history — and capture the first recordings of shark sounds ever made. While examining various ...

In accordance with the Central Intelligence Agency’s long tradition of dreaming up bizarre and outlandish covert operations, declassified files have recently brought new attention to the agency’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...