At any given time, there are countless secret government operations underway in the United States. While this has always been ...

This is the story of Gianni Versace’s life, murder, and legacy. Born on Dec. 2, 1946, in Reggio Calabria, Italy, to a poor family, Gianni Versace was fascinated by fashion from a young age. He grew up ...

Translator Eric Shahan recently published English-language versions of four centuries-old texts passed down by the samurai that detail how they carried out the suicide ritual of seppuku. Translated ...

Built in 1884, the John Evenson was a steam-powered wooden tugboat that operated in Lake Michigan. It played a key role in towing ships through the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal in northern Wisconsin during ...

In a groundbreaking step in the history of cheese, researchers have finally solved the enduring mystery of the bizarre chunks discovered nearly two decades ago that were buried with 3,600-year-old ...

Over the past six months, archaeologists have unearthed more than 50 well-preserved Viking skeletons from graves found in Åsum, Denmark, near the city of Odense. Now, analyses of these skeletons could ...

Archaeologists from the Leibniz Centre for Archaeology (LEIZA) and the University of Trier have recently excavated the ancient city of Fregellae in Italy. Founded in the 4th century B.C.E., Fregellae ...

Octopuses off the southern coast of Israel have formed a fascinating bond with the local fish population, and the two species are now teaming up to track down prey. This strange collaboration has ...

In 1977, the embassy of the Soviet Union was moved to a new building complex in Washington, D.C., but this new location’s proximity to the White House and the Capitol Building made some intelligence ...

There was no shortage of odd ideas during World War II. The Allied forces were facing a great threat, fighting on multiple fronts, and when the United States joined the conflict, the tides began to ...

It wasn’t just the Moon that the U.S. military considered nuking — far from it. In fact, for a time, it seemed like the United States was a little too quick to resort to nuking any issue it faced.