The discovery of a 3,100-year-old skeleton of a teenage boy at a mountaintop altar to the Greek god Zeus might confirm ancient legends of human sacrifice.
A new study has challenged the popular theory that the first Ice-Age humans who migrated to North America arrived by a land bridge connecting Siberia to Alaska.
Get the facts behind a secret meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill that produced a cornerstone of the post-war world order.
Although World War II forced the cancellation of the 1944 Summer Games, an unofficial Olympics took place in a most unlikely setting—a Nazi prisoner of war camp.
Archaeologists in England have unearthed the walls of a possible 6th-century royal palace atop a seaside promontory long associated with the legendary King Arthur.
Hundreds of volunteers on motorcycles are escorting the unclaimed ashes of Civil War private Jewett Williams from Oregon to his home state of Maine for a proper burial.
A new study reports that Apollo astronauts have experienced elevated rates of cardiovascular-related deaths, likely because of exposure to deep space radiation.
A canal network discovered by Mexican archaeologists under the 1,300-year-old Mayan temple holding the tomb of King Pakal may have been a symbolic path to the afterlife.
