If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

Flag Fen Archaeology Park sits in the midst of a unique Bronze Age landscape east of Peterborough, in England. Some 3,500 ...

Archaeologist Professor John Schofield from the University of York argues that plastic’s refusal to die might actually be an ...

I have always been drawn to the strange edge cases where our best theories simply do not fit the facts. From mysterious ...

Some of the items include Native American baskets, jewelry and laptops. More than 1,000 items and historical artifacts have been stolen in an early morning heist from a California museum's off-site ...

A thief or crew of thieves recently carried out one of the largest art heists in California history, breaking into a storage facility for the Oakland Museum of California under cover of darkness and ...

Data show that unidentified lights in archival astronomy images were 68% more likely to be imaged 24 hours after a nuclear weapons test. In the 1950s, mysterious flashes of light were captured on ...

A newspaper reporter heads to the Louisiana swamps to investigate several strange murders in 1940. It is 1940, and ace newspaper reporter Margo Mason heads to the Louisiana swamps to investigate a ...

The Romanian artist Andra Ursuța’s new show at David Zwirner gallery, “Retina Turner,” consists of 16 large ovoid slabs of cast glass — her Private Dancers. Each encases a spectral, half-formed figure ...

Some of the artifacts stored in the al-Kawthar building had been unearthed at the St. Hilarion Monastery. Rizek Abdeljawad / Xinhua via Getty Images One day after Israel issued an evacuation order for ...

Norwich Castle, a mighty medieval fortress built by William the Conquerer after he invaded England in 1066, reopened to the public last month following a landmark $37 million restoration. The castle’s ...