Purchased for just $50 at a Minnesota garage sale in 2016, "Elimar" may actually be a long-lost Vincent van Gogh masterpiece painted in 1889.

Metal detectorist Constantin Fried found a miniature lock dating to the Roman era while exploring a field near ...

The 1904 Olympics were the first to take place in the United States, and they established the tradition of awarding gold, ...

Centuries-old secret passageways detailed in Leonardo da Vinci's sketches were just found under Milan's Sforza Castle.

On April 16, 1874, wilderness guide Alfred Packer arrived at the Los Pinos Indian Agency near Gunnison, Colorado, starving, freezing, and, most notably, alone. The five men Packer had been traveling ...

The octagonal-shaped tomb depicts tales with some very grim details, indicating that life definitely wasn't easy at the time.

The Ark of the Covenant is one of the most sacred relics of Jewish and Christian tradition. The chest is said to hold the stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were originally inscribed, and ...

In the 1970s, Los Angeles was full of rock ‘n’ roll groupies — and wannabe groupies. Many people fantasized about leaving home, following rockstars from city to city, and getting even the faintest ...

In July 1991, Desiree Washington, an 18-year-old contestant in the Miss Black America pageant, met boxer Mike Tyson during a rehearsal for the event in Indianapolis. When the celebrity athlete called ...

The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings in the world, but few know about the woman depicted in it. Lisa Gherardini, a 16th-century noblewoman from the Republic of Florence, is long believed ...

In March 1977, a teacher at McKinley High School in Honolulu made a shocking discovery in the school’s English building. Lying deceased and partially clothed on the floor was 16-year-old Dawn Momohara ...

“You know, it’s the saddest thing but it seems like everybody my mother ever gets close to dies,” Velma Barfield’s son Ronnie Burke once said, according to the Toronto Sun. “How could the good Lord ...