Archaeologists hope the Pyramid of Cestius, built in Rome early in the first century B.C., will attract more visitors after an extensive restoration partially funded by a Japanese clothing tycoon.
A small clay tablet created between 350 B.C. and 50 B.C. shows that Babylonian astronomers tracked Jupiter’s motion using geometric principles thought to have been invented some 1,400 years later.
Thirty years ago, the U.S. shuttle orbiter Challenger blew apart some 73 seconds after lifting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing all seven astronauts on board.
Chinese state media has reported that the country’s space program will launch a mission to land on the far side of the moon in 2018, two years earlier than originally scheduled.
From the Army’s Green Berets to Navy SEALs, Air Force Air Commandos, Marine Corps Raiders and beyond, Special Ops forces are the elite of the U.S. military.
Explore some interesting facts you might not know about the struggle for female suffrage in the United States.
Scientists discovered the common pathogen Helicobacter pylori inside the stomach of Ötzi, the 5,300-year-old “Iceman” whose naturally mummified body turned up in the Alps in 1991.
Marine archaeologists recently discovered what they believe are the wrecks of two 19th-century ships that formed part of a fleet sunk off Alaska’s northwestern coast nearly 150 years ago.
