As East Germany begins to construct the Berlin Wall, guards are sent to watch over the temporary line of barbed wire separating the east and the west. One East German guard, Konrad Schumann, takes ...

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

Dating to 7500 B.C., these figurines were crafted only about a century after human depictions became more common in the Early Neolithic groups of Western Asia. While the objects alone don’t portend ...

For much of the 20th century, the book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself was thought to be a 19th-century work of fiction about the life of an enslaved woman written by a white ...

If anyone should be credited with introducing the Hawaiian tradition of surfing to the masses, it’s Duke Kahanamoku. He grew up on the outskirts of Waikiki, where he first fell in love with surfing.

According to the Moesgaard Museum, the Viking graves were found in Lisbjerg, Denmark, near the location of a previously discovered Viking farm. The 30 graves at the site date back to the second half ...

The remains of a pair of well-preserved prehistoric canines found in northern Siberia in 2011 and 2015 have now been identified as wolves – not dogs, as previously thought – following a newly-released ...

Discover the full story behind the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the presidential hopeful who was shot dead while on the campaign trail in California on June 5, 1968. By June of 1968, the United ...

In 1907, Ida Wood called up two of her close relatives, booked a room at the Herald Square Hotel in New York City, and shut the door. As the years passed, she and the others stayed firmly ensconced ...

Routine dredging work in the Netherlands’ Korte Linschoten River in March 2024 led to the discovery of a rare, 1,000-year-old sword with an “endless knot” motif engraved on its blade. The symbol is ...

The Mount Tambora eruption in April 1815 was the most powerful volcanic blast in recorded human history. The stratovolcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa had been dormant for centuries — and then ...

Dozens of military helmets from World War I and World War II were recently found just steps from the University of Wrocław Institute of Archaeology in Wrocław, Poland. As construction workers were ...