Women like Mae Capone and Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti stood behind their gangster husbands for better or for worse.

The research team uncovered the treasure while examining a field in Årdal, Norway ahead of the construction of a new road.

Archaeologists excavating caves in Malaysia's Nenggiri Valley unearthed 16 Neolithic burials and more than 71,000 prehistoric ...

From "lion whisperer" Jack Bonavita to "America's first supermodel" Audrey Munson, these fascinating figures from history rarely show up in textbooks.

Yōkai are supernatural beings like kappas, demons, and even haunted household objects that have appeared in Japanese art and folklore for centuries. It’s difficult to define yōkai in simple terms.

Around 104 C.E., Pliny the Younger sat down to write a letter. “Though my shocked soul recoils, my tongue shall tell,” he told the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus. Then, Pliny began to describe what ...

At a remote temple in Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Archaeological Park, researchers have discovered a large sandstone guardian statue buried just under the dirt. The statue, known as a dvarapala, was still ...

Genevieve Carlton earned a Ph.D in history from Northwestern University with a focus on early modern Europe and the history of science and medicine before becoming a history professor at the ...

For years, researchers have been puzzled by the discovery of giant jars filled with dead bodies spread across hundreds of square miles in the unexploded mine fields of southeast Asia. According to a ...

Randy Weaver became a household name in 1992 after federal agents swarmed his remote cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Weaver, alongside his family, believed that the apocalypse was near, that the U.S.

Museumgoers at London’s National Gallery have likely walked by and marveled at Leonardo Da Vinci’s 15th-century painting “The Virgin of the Rocks” without a clue as to what lay beneath. As it turns ...