An unprecedented DNA study has found evidence of a single human migration out of Africa and confirmed that Aboriginal Australians are the world’s oldest civilization. Read More
Using a computer program, scientists for the first time have digitally unwrapped and read a severely damaged ancient Hebrew scroll without even touching it. Read More
A team of archaeologists and oceanographers excavating the famous Antikythera shipwreck in Greece recently extracted a 2,100-year-old human skeleton from its watery grave. Read More
An 82-year-old time capsule containing perfectly preserved Nazi relics including copies of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” has been found at a former Nazi training school in Poland. Read More
After 200 years of rumors, two organizations have recognized the African-American descendants of the first U.S. president’s step-grandson (and adopted son). Read More
It was a century ago that a staple of modern warfare—the tank—first made its combat debut at the Battle of the Somme. Read More
Manfred von Richthofen—better known as the “Red Baron”—was the top scoring flying ace of World War I, with 80 aerial victories between September 1916 and his death in April 1918. Read More
Jane Haining, a matron at a Scottish missionary school in Budapest, refused to abandon her young Jewish charges—and gave her life for it. Read More
Read about Roald Dahl’s secret life befriending presidents and bedding socialites as part of a British spy ring in the United States. Read More
Greta Friedman, the woman believed to have been kissed by a sailor in Times Square in an iconic V-J Day photograph, has passed away at age 92. Read More
