Sarah Pruitt

After escaping a POW camp and flying a stolen German plane to freedom, Bob Hoover spent a long, brilliant career testing aircraft, training military pilots and performing in air shows worldwide.

In honor of this historic matchup, we take a look back at what was going on in the country—and the world—the last time each of these two teams took home the title.

An international team working at a Neolithic site in central Turkey recently discovered a limestone figurine that could depict a fertility goddess, or a high-status woman.

Archaeologists working on the famed Terra Cotta Army in China now believe their lifelike appearance could have been modeled on ancient Greek sculptures.

Two new books detail the contents of more than 25 previously unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls, the fragments of ancient texts containing narratives from the Hebrew Bible.

New research claims that despite rising life expectancy over the past century, humans have a natural biological limit to our life span—and we’ve already reached it.

Archaeologists have concluded that the nearly 900-year-old Grolier Codex, long believed to be a forgery, is authentic, making it the oldest known document created in the Americas.

Archaeologists recently uncovered an impressive gate and shrine from the First Temple period (eighth century B.C.) in Israel’s ancient city of Tel Lachish.