Colombia has announced the discovery of the wreck of the Spanish galleon San José, which could hold the world’s largest sunken treasure, worth as much as $17 billion.
Widely acclaimed as the first movie star, Florence Lawrence was the first film actress whose name was used to promote her films.
An 8-year-old Israeli boy with dreams of becoming a real-life Indiana Jones has discovered a 3,000-year-old relic from an ancient biblical city.
Preliminary results of a high-tech radar scan appear to confirm the presence of a secret chamber hidden behind the walls of King Tut’s tomb.
More than 50 years before the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Spanish colonists in Florida feasted with Native Americans in what some call the first Thanksgiving.
A century after Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition, descendants of one crewmember hope to complete the family’s “unfinished business” and trek to the South Pole.
A decision to add Anne Frank’s father as a co-author on her famous diary in order to extend its European copyright is stirring considerable controversy.
Find out how and why South America became a safe haven for thousands of former Nazi party members and SS officers after World War II.
