India has lost around 20% of its languages in the past five decades, a survey by the Vadodara-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre has revealed.

Following a brief border skirmish in 1962, India held 3,000 ethnic Chinese people in prison camps. A half-century later, survivors are still seeking justice.

Summer moviegoing has really lost a lot of its romance since the demise of the drive-in. Another thing it lost was a whole set of individually-tailored ads, some of which Internet Archive has thankfully preserved for us.

The literary world may seem quiet and remote, sometimes, boxed away in libraries, but words have power, and their cumulative effect can rattle the world—culturally, politically and philosophically.

A psychology professor at Downstate Millikin University killed his parents and sister 46 years ago when he was a teenager, a revelation that has jolted the bucolic liberal arts college that has employed him for nearly three decades and sparked calls for his resignation.

Writer Dart Adams looks back at the birth of hip-hop. He says that what started as a unifying party in the South Bronx is far from the music of major record labels and corporations we hear today.

CNN series explores how cops cracked the coldest case ever solved: the 1957 kidnapping and murder of Maria Ridulph, 7.

This educational video from 1997 will leave you reminiscing about AOL chat rooms. 

Pick your burial spot carefully if you want future paleontologists to find you.

Maria Ridulph was 7 when she was kidnapped from a street corner in Sycamore, Illinois, on December 3, 1957. Her murder went unsolved for half a century.

Do you remember when you could get a copy of Time magazine for only 15 cents? You probably don't because that was nearly 100 years ago. Some of the magazines we read each day have been around for decades. As these magazines grow, they update their cover look and feel to move with the times. Can you…

Telltale blade sharpeners may be smoking guns in the quest for the New World's second known Viking site.

The public's fascination with outer space travel has just beamed up a notch in what some might call a morbid manner.

A human tied this rope over 3300 years ago.

Looking to buy a vintage flying car? Get out your debit card and your tool kit.

The nearly 100-year-old Luna Theatre is still in operation thanks to New Mexico’s one-of-a-kind MainStreet Historic Theater Initiative.

The author Jen Lin-Liu traveled from Beijing to Rome to trace the origins and spread of the popular culinary item -- and enjoyed some tasty surprises along the way.

Once the closest living relatives of modern humans, Neanderthals may have crafted the oldest examples of a kind of bone tool used in Europe.

Five years before publishing ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four,’ George Orwell penned a letter detailing the thesis of his great novel.

You've probably heard the myth that eating lots of carrots will make magically improve your vision. The bad news is that it's a total lie. The good news? It's one that helped the Allies defeat the Nazis.