Marie-Thérèse, Louis-Joseph, Louis-Charles, and Sophie were the four children of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI of France — but despite their initial wealth and power, only one of them survived ...

On a January day in 1865, Company E of the United States Colored Cavalry was ambushed by a group of Confederate guerrillas in Simpsonville, Kentucky. The 22 men of the Black company were brutally ...

Rosa Parks’ death on Oct. 24, 2005, came almost exactly 50 years after she made history by refusing to leave her seat for a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This simple act of ...

Amateur diver Dom Robinson has been exploring shipwrecks for more than three decades, and now he is the owner of one. Robinson was browsing Facebook Marketplace when he came across a listing for the ...

"As scientists, we recognize the special nature of the impact crater, but it was also recognized by ancient inhabitants of the area," a geologist said of the discovery at Vredefort. A number of ...

The S.K. Pierce Mansion, one of the "most haunted" homes in Massachusetts, was listed for sale for $1.2 million in April 2025 ...

A multi-year Italian study suggests there is a link between regularly consuming large amounts of poultry and an increased risk of gastrointestinal cancers and cardiovascular disease. The study, which ...

“The Senate and Roman People” or “The Senate and People of Rome” was a phrase that once represented the essence of the Roman Republic’s political system. In Latin, the phrase was “Senatus Populusque ...

During excavations on the outskirts of Jerusalem in 2020, archaeologists were surprised to find a stone capital — the top of a pillar or column — that seemed to be adorned with an image of a menorah.

Countless people around the world have been captivated by ancient Egypt since Roman times, but especially after King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922, Egyptomania spread across Europe and the ...

Siberia’s Yakutia region near the Russian Arctic is so unbearably cold that temperatures can fall below -76 degrees Fahrenheit. That bodes badly for the living, but works wonders to preserve the dead.