Did the ancient Romans really abandon people with disabilities?
What we know now about how ancient archers made their bows
Why ancient Egyptians needed the flooding of the Nile
How a doomed bridge became an unlikely reef
Why this ancient Minoan ruin on Crete is caught in controversy
The woman who almost became England’s first queen
The 30-foot sea cow hunted to extinction because of its tasty meat
The brief life—and untimely death—of Hamnet Shakespeare
The oldest known city map is startlingly precise
New treasures hint at what Britain was like before Roman conquest
Exclusive: Inside the new Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi
The Roman emperor who died from eating too much cheese
The medical mistakes that killed a U.S. president
Inside the elaborate world of Viking funerals
The disappearing art of making great Champagne by hand
Making sense of the pyramids’ enduring mysteries
The students who developed a plan to stop Armageddon
What it really took to become an astronaut during the Space Race
Why the mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald endures
Unlocking the secret of Peru’s ‘Serpent Mountain’
How one torpedo sank the mighty Lusitania
The mystery woman at the heart of Beethoven’s secret love affair
Medieval nostalgia is everywhere right now
The Grand Ole Opry enters its next century
Here are 6 amazing ancient tattoos—and the stories behind them
How one catastrophic shipwreck sank a medieval dynasty
Why the Vietnam War dragged on for decades
The first woman to climb Mount Fuji did it in secret
What caused Strasbourg’s dancing plague of 1518?
What's missing at the new Grand Egyptian Museum?
Who were the Cathars?
Paganism is on the rise—here’s where to discover its traditions
The forgotten plan to make daylight saving time permanent
Why America was so obsessed with Victorian ‘ghost photos’
The German eccentric who remade America's forests
The chupacabra—how evolution made a mythical monster
They mummified a human with ancient tools. It got messy.
What makes Appalachian ghost stories so scary?
What destroyed Napoleon’s army?
Top 10 things to know about the Day of the Dead
These manuscripts brought Medieval beasts to life
The ghost stories of ancient Rome
When the women of Iceland took a day off—and inspired the world
Colossal crabs may hold clue to Amelia Earhart fate
'Java Man,’ the first Homo erectus found, is finally going home
The ancient—and mysterious—history of ‘abracadabra’
What it takes to tend the world’s deadliest garden
The Louvre has a wild history of being robbed in broad daylight
What happened the last time the French crown jewels were stolen
Who really built Rome?
load more