Explore some intriguing facts about the failed U.S.-orchestrated attack on Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
Seven years after becoming the first man to fly into outer space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin died in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances.
A recently rediscovered manuscript written in the 17th century by Isaac Newton offers a rare glimpse into the famed physicist’s interest in alchemy.
By analyzing the DNA of the earliest Americans, a new study confirms the devastating impact of European contact on the indigenous peoples of the New World.
Using a technique known as space archaeology, scientists have found evidence of a Norse settlement 300 miles south of L’Anse aux Meadows, the only confirmed Viking site in North America.
Russian paleontologists found that an ancient rhino species known as the “Siberian unicorn” likely existed for hundreds of thousands years longer than previously thought.
Scientists say a single bear bone found in 1903 suggests humans inhabited the Emerald Isle some 2,500 years earlier than previously thought.
A British archaeologist believes that the hundreds of bodies that have surfaced in the peat bogs of northern Europe over the centuries were victims of human sacrifice.
