The S.K. Pierce Mansion, one of the "most haunted" homes in Massachusetts, was listed for sale for $1.2 million in April 2025 ...

Countless people around the world have been captivated by ancient Egypt since Roman times, but especially after King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922, Egyptomania spread across Europe and the ...

Siberia’s Yakutia region near the Russian Arctic is so unbearably cold that temperatures can fall below -76 degrees Fahrenheit. That bodes badly for the living, but works wonders to preserve the dead.

The Spanish city of Barcelona has a long and proud seafaring history. As such, it wasn’t a total surprise when archaeologists uncovered the remains of a medieval boat beneath the city’s former Mercat ...

Lasting from the 1910s to the 1930s, the Harlem Renaissance inspired generations of Black American artists and activists — and helped pave the way for the civil rights movement. When reflecting on ...

In the ruins of the ancient town of Áspero in Peru, archaeologists have uncovered the 5,000-year-old grave of a woman from the Caral civilization. Her body was in a state of remarkable preservation, ...

A decades-long debate over a 558 million-year-old fossil has now been settled after scientists were able to identify it as one of the Earth’s earliest known animals. The fossil, Dickinsonia, was first ...

In the 1960s and 1990s, excavations in the ancient graveyard of Mözs-Icsei-dülö in Hungary unearthed the skeletal remains of at least 96 people from the fifth century. Using modern isotope analysis ...

Arsinoe IV was the youngest sister of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra — and she became a tragic victim of her powerful sibling’s political plots. Amidst the Alexandrian War, Arsinoe had attempted to lead ...

Andy Warhol’s death in 1987 was a somber conclusion to a life marked by celebrity. He passed away unexpectedly at age 58 after what was meant to be a simple surgery. Though Warhol had survived a ...

While excavating what’s believed to be a cemetery for ancient Roman gladiators near York, England, archaeologists came across a decapitated skeleton — with a large bite mark in its pelvis. And ...