By far Gustave Eiffel’s most well-known work, the Eiffel Tower was designed for the 1889 World’s Fair to celebrate the 100th ...

Hanoi Hannah, whose real name was Trinh Thi Ngo, used her propaganda radio show during the Vietnam War to encourage American soldiers to defect.

A submerged bathhouse discovered among the ruins of Baiae may have been part of the villa that belonged to the famous orator Cicero.

Sometimes called the "Venice of the Pacific," Nan Madol is an abandoned city that was built from basalt stones atop a coral reef off the Micronesian island of Pohnpei around 1200 C.E.

See 44 vintage photos of when Laurel Canyon was the epicenter of Los Angeles' counterculture in the '60s and '70s. Back in the 1960s, Laurel Canyon was a central hub of the burgeoning counterculture ...

In an exclusive with National Geographic, a team of international and interdisciplinary scientists have revealed what is likely the largest single incident of mass child sacrifice in world history.

Archaeology student Yara Souza unearthed a 9th-century relic during Newcastle University's excavations in the Redesdale valley in Northumberland, England.

New research shows that the Maya population in present-day Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize during the Late Classic period was much larger than previously thought.

Archaeologists in Lolland, Denmark unearthed a piece of 5,700-year-old chewing gum made of birch bark and found to their great surprise that the ancient artifact contained DNA. The DNA was so ...

The rare first edition and first impression copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 novel "The Hobbit" was found at an estate sale in Bristol, England.

A research team in China found 10 ounces of rice wine in a bronze kettle while excavating ancient tombs in the Shaanxi province. Due to the way the kettle was sealed, this 2,200-year-old wine was ...