At the age of 16, Robin Lee Graham had set sail from southern California on his 24-foot sloop, the Dove. He planned to ...

In August 1961, Hans Conrad Schumann leapt over the Berlin Wall — and his escape into West Germany was captured by a nearby photographer.

From the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to the Temptations and the Beach Boys, these bands symbolized the rapid social and cultural changes that defined the '60s. The 1960s was a time of major ...

Matthew Broderick's car accident in August 1987 left two women in Northern Ireland dead, though he faced minimal criminal charges.

Independent researcher Michael S. Bar-Ron claims to have found the Proto-Sinaitic signature of Moses at the site of an ancient Egyptian turquoise mine on the Sinai Peninsula.

In the high-altitude Australian rainforest, researchers identified a new species dubbed Acrophylla alta — and it may be the country's heaviest insect.

In February 2010, federal authorities raided the Women’s Medical Society, the West Philadelphia clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. They were there to uncover a pill mill that Gosnell was running from the ...

About 5,500 years ago, people in Early Bronze Age Israel toiled to make flint Canaanite blades. Their methods were precise, sophisticated, and formulaic. And now, one of their ancient blade-making ...

The ruler of the Kingdom of Kush, Queen Amanirenas successfully resisted the Roman Army in the first century B.C.E.

Archaeology student Katie Joss found the 900-year-old carving at the historic Skaill Farm settlement on Rousay, one of Scotland's Orkney Islands that's known as the "Egypt of the north" due to its ...

Former Teamsters Union boss Jimmy Hoffa vanished without a trace on July 30, 1975, in suburban Detroit, and to this day, it's still unclear what happened to him.