Samuel Willenberg was one of only 67 people to survive the notorious Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, where as many as 925,000 people were killed over a span of 16 months.
In 1909, the luxury liner RMS Republic collided with another ship and sank off the coast of Nantucket, taking with it what some believe was a fortune now worth more than $1 billion.
A 4-minute cantata co-written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and rival composer Antonio Salieri recently resurfaced in the archives of the Czech Museum of Music.
Despite their barbaric reputation, Vikings left a legacy of achievements that forever changed the way we speak, travel, exercise—and even groom ourselves.
Antonin Scalia, who served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court for nearly 30 years, died in his sleep this weekend while visiting a West Texas ranch.
Visitors will soon be able to tour a former missile alert facility in Wyoming that housed the nation’s most powerful nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
A team of Czech archaeologists has discovered a well-preserved Egyptian funerary boat dating back some 4,500 years buried in the sand near the Abusir pyramids.
Thanks to advances in genetic technology, scientists are using DNA from long-buried human remains to trace the origins of African slaves brought to the New World.
