Centuries-old secret passageways detailed in Leonardo da Vinci's sketches were just found under Milan's Sforza Castle.

The octagonal-shaped tomb depicts tales with some very grim details, indicating that life definitely wasn't easy at the time.

During renovations at St. Andreas Church in Eisleben, workers uncovered 816 coins hidden inside a statue during the Thirty ...

Recently, researchers Olena Veremeychyk and Olga Antowska-Gorączniak took a closer look at eight medieval discs discovered ...

Famously mentioned in Hesiod’s Theogony in the 8th century B.C.E., Nyx is one of the oldest deities in Greek mythology. The primordial goddess of the night, Nyx gave birth to numerous offspring, who ...

On a spring night in 1968, the world changed forever. Televisions buzzed and radios crackled as the news spread across the country: Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader who’d given the ...

Born into the harsh realities of segregation and poverty in the Jim Crow South, Martin Luther King Sr. rose to become a powerful voice for justice, a devoted pastor, and the guiding force behind one ...

The Aztec deity Xolotl was seen as the twin brother of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god linked with life and light. In many ways, Xolotl was Quetzalcoatl’s opposite. He was associated with ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it buried the rich and poor of Pompeii alike in an avalanche of ash. But the eruption also preserved how some of the city’s wealthier citizens lived, as ...

In the 1350s, a knight in Lirey, France came into possession of a peculiar object. There is no record where he found it, who he got it from, or where it originally came from. But it was, the knight ...