The bouncing rubber balls used to play today’s most popular sports can be traced back 3,500 years to the dangerous—and deadly—ancient Mesoamerican sport of ulama.
On the anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre, look back at the last major confrontation in the long war between the United States and Native American tribes from the Great Plains.
According to a new study, sickles were placed around the throats of the dead in a Polish cemetery not to guard against suspected vampires but to ward off evil demons.
Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch had nothing on the 17th-century Puritans, who actually banned the public celebration of Christmas in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for an entire generation.
Find out how this planet’s real-life history inspired filmmaker George Lucas to create his sci-fi saga in a galaxy far, far away.
Scientists have announced that an investigation has found no trace of a Nazi train laden with looted gold, gems and weapons buried in southwest Poland.
A hoard of 1,100-year-old silver coins and Viking jewelry discovered by an amateur treasure hunter with a metal detector could rewrite English history.
Check out 10 surprising facts about the pioneering woman often cited as the world’s first computer programmer.
