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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paleontologists in Argentina’s Patagonia region have discovered a previously unknown species of dinosaur that’s now been named Astigmasaura genuflexa. It roamed the Earth during the Late Cretaceous ...

A team of archaeologists and students from Missouri State University unearthed the remains of Springfield's William Townsend house.

When Portrait Of A Young Woman was first donated to the Allentown Art Museum in 1961, it was believed to be an original Rembrandt. A decade later, it was declared a forgery — but it may actually be ...

Ancient inscriptions dating back to Egypt’s 12th Dynasty may have been written by Moses, the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery during the Exodus from Egypt, according to a new proto ...