The discovery was made near the remains of a mummified adult lion, which was found underneath the Saqqara necropolis in 2004.

When the Jascon-4 tugboat overturned off the Nigerian coast in May 2013, it made headlines around the world. Most assumed there were no survivors — until three days later, when the ship’s cook ...

Sometimes the most valuable treasures are hiding in plain sight, which was certainly the case with a French family when they discovered a priceless painting thought to be lost forever in their attic.

Cheyenne Brando was the daughter of Hollywood icon Marlon Brando and his third wife, French Polynesian actress Tarita Teriipaia — but her life was far from glamorous. Raised by her mother in Tahiti, ...

Scientists believe a crater found in the Australian outback may be the oldest-known meteor crash site in the world. In comparison, the next-oldest crater site in the world, the Vredefort crater in ...

On April 6, 1967, a 20-year-old U.S. Navy sailor named Doug Hegdahl was swept overboard in the Gulf of Tonkin. There, he was picked up by a fishing boat and turned over to North Vietnamese forces, who ...

If you love to drink wine, you have the ancient Phoenicians to thank for making fermented grape juice so popular. The Phoenicians were a civilization of people who inhabited independent city-states ...

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln seemed to be in good spirits. The Civil War was ending, his son had just returned home from the army, and he and his wife Mary had plans to see a play that ...

According to archaeology news site Ancient Origins, the Sumerian tablet was first uncovered at the site of the city of Uruk located in ancient Mesopotamia, which is in present-day Iraq. It was part of ...

When they burst onto the scene in 1968, Led Zeppelin established themselves as a force to be reckoned with by putting out iconic songs like “Whole Lotta Love,” “Immigrant Song,” and “Stairway To ...

The crumbling wooden water well above certainly doesn’t look impressive, but a tree-ring dating method revealed the oak used to build it is 7,275 years old. That might make it the oldest known wooden ...

The dagger has been immaculately preserved over the past 2,800 years, making it one of the most valuable finds of its kind in ...