A body found at Herculaneum may have been part of Pliny the Elder's team sent to rescue residents.

The strange fate of a group of skiers in the Ural Mountains has generated endless speculation.

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It is a scene that exudes sadness: a child perhaps 2-1/2 or 3 years old buried in a shallow grave under the sheltered overhang of a cave, head resting on a pillow and the upper part of the body carefully wrapped in a shroud.

In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot.

Inside the reckoning at an American media institution.

From the 10th century till their abolition in the 1870s, samurai were a class of Japanese military nobility who inherited lives as warrior protectorates (bushi) for feudal lords, and had a notoriously strict and intricate honour code. This video from the YouTube channel Voices of the Past explores two scrolls from the famed samurai school Natori-Ryu’s 17th-century rulebook.

If someone asked you what the worst year in human history was, what would you guess? 1347 CE was pretty bad. That's the year the Black Death seriously hit Europe. Any of the years of the Holocaust, between 1941 and 1945. Or 1918, the year of the star

Exhibits at the house where the writer lived in the early 1800s are being updated to add historical context. Not everyone is thrilled.

Amid the trauma and boredom of war, soldiers turned to reading — often magazines they wrote themselves.

For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.

In a new book, Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan examines the history of America's furious and fractious politics

Despite closing churches and synagogues, killing thousands of priests and imprisoning clergy, a majority of the Soviet Union's people remained religiously faithful.

The ancient Romans have passed many traditions on to modern day society, but they certainly had a different perspective on urine. It was seen as much more useful than today.

Thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to Wyoming during the second world war. They overcame displacement and achieved athletic excellence

Using pattern recognition and AI techniques "opens new window" to ancient world.

In the 1970s, scientists linked pot use to mental health woes in teens. Such concerns have helped keep the drug illegal for teens for 50 years.

Pieces of humanity’s first powered aircraft have orbited Earth, ventured to the Moon, and now, they’ve hovered above Mars’ surface.

For a couple of hundred years, Cahokia was the place to be in what is now the US state of Illinois. The bustling, vibrant city was at one time home to some 15,000 people, but by the end of the 14th century it was deserted