“Don’t forget today,” General George E. Pickett cried to his troops on July 3, 1863, “that you are from Old Virginia!” With that, three brigades of 5,400 Confederate soldiers from Virginia poured ...

Archaeologists at an Ecuadorian historical site have revealed that two individuals they unearthed were infants that had “helmets” made from the skulls of other children wrapped around their heads.

Italian authorities were recently alerted to photos of ancient Etruscan artifacts circulating online, including sarcophagi, urns, and funerary objects. The images highly suggested the items had been ...

Eight years ago, in the back of an old cabinet in Amsterdam, a small silver coin was found. It’s roughly the size of a nickel and technically has a silver value of just $1.03. However, there is ...

When Viktor Bout saw an opportunity to build a business in the early days of the Soviet Union’s collapse, he took it. Soon, he would be known as the “Merchant of Death.” By the early 1990s, Bout had ...

During excavations just north of Dublin, archaeologists came across a surprising artifact. Small, hard, and burnt, it didn’t look like anything of importance at first. But it actually turned out to be ...

In the 1700s, a wave of European settlers crashed into the ancestral homeland of the Cherokee people. Raids sowed death and destruction for white homesteaders and Indigenous villagers alike. However, ...

There are many things still unknown about the so-called “dark side” of the Moon. The near side, which faces the Earth, has been extensively studied, and researchers have long known that it once saw ...