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

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

During renovations at St. Andreas Church in Eisleben, workers uncovered 816 coins hidden inside a statue during the Thirty ...

Recently, researchers Olena Veremeychyk and Olga Antowska-Gorączniak took a closer look at eight medieval discs discovered ...

“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 ...

Some 250 miles south of Lima, Peru, not far from the shores of the Pacific Ocean, there is a great arid plane — the site of one of the world’s oldest mysteries. This is the home of the Nazca Lines.

In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum — and everyone within them — in ash. But more than 1,000 years before that, when Bronze Age villages ...

You never know what you might encounter during a casual stroll in Siberia. Local resident Pavel Efimov was walking along the Tirekhtyakh River in the Russian Republic of Sakha when he came across ...

Wild Bill Hickok died on August 2, 1876, in Deadwood, South Dakota, after he was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall. Wild Bill Hickok’s death during a poker game was a fitting end for a man ...