Hundreds of millions of trees die from lightning strikes worldwide every year, and as the climate changes, that number is ...

Scientists have determined the reddish-brown rock art found in a cave on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island is more than 44,000 ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov attempted to contact the Sentinelese Tribe that lives on North Sentinel Island in the Indian ...

It was the darkest time in modern history: the Holocaust. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution” sought to wipe out Europe’s Jewish population — six million of whom were ultimately killed in ...

In northwestern Germany, the locality of Delbrück-Bentfeld in the district of the city of Paderborn has recently become the site of several groundbreaking discoveries about ancient Roman history. In ...

On August 18, 2010, 30-year-old Ben McDaniel put on his scuba gear and descended into the underwater cave of Vortex Springs near Ponce de Leon, Florida. McDaniel had been scuba diving since he was 15, ...

Although the historic eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius and its subsequent destruction of the city of Pompeii happened in 79 A.D., archaeologists are still making new discoveries that reveal the ...

On the night of Feb. 20, 2003, The Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island, became one of the deadliest in U.S. history. When the band Jack Russell’s Great White took the stage just after ...

During renovations of a soccer field in Vienna last fall, construction workers came across a startling sight: dozens of skeletons buried in the ground. Archaeologists investigated the scene and ...

For centuries, the stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table at Camelot have stood among the most famous legends in Western history. First popularized in the 12th century, these ...

For the past two and a half years, archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have tirelessly worked to uncover the 5,000-year-old city of En Esur. According to Newsweek, experts believe ...

The defeat of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 is widely believed to be due to the inclement weather in England. But a new study suggests that Napoleon’s misfortune ...