Purchased for just $50 at a Minnesota garage sale in 2016, "Elimar" may actually be a long-lost Vincent van Gogh masterpiece painted in 1889.

Metal detectorist Constantin Fried found a miniature lock dating to the Roman era while exploring a field near ...

Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s story is forever tied with one of Hollywood’s earliest scandals: the sudden demise of Virginia Rappe. Arbuckle had risen to fame in the early 1900s, eventually becoming one ...

The furry creature doesn’t look quite camera-ready. Its snout is raised as if it’s sniffing the air, and its eyes are glazed and bright. It’s no wonder why the tiny California mammal appears so ...

In previous research, scientists discovered that victims of Mount Vesuvius who died in the city of Herculaneum near the volcano had died a grisly death: The extreme heat from the explosion caused ...

As soon as he realized that the Titanic had struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, John Jacob Astor IV sprung into action. He roused his pregnant wife, told her to put on her warmest ...

The phrase “going postal,” which means to become uncontrollably angry, appeared as a slang term in American English in the 1990s. It emerged after a spate of shootings at post offices carried out by ...

Archaeologists and historians have always known that Abarkuh, Iran, was an important historical city. Situated within the “golden triangle” of Shiraz, Yazd, and Isfahan, it functioned as a settlement ...

In March 1977, a teacher at McKinley High School in Honolulu made a shocking discovery in the school’s English building. Lying deceased and partially clothed on the floor was 16-year-old Dawn Momohara ...

The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings in the world, but few know about the woman depicted in it. Lisa Gherardini, a 16th-century noblewoman from the Republic of Florence, is long believed ...

The 1904 Olympics were the first to take place in the United States, and they established the tradition of awarding gold, ...