Sisyphus appears in several Greek myths, though today he is often associated with just one. In the famous legend, he is punished by Zeus for cheating death and condemned to endlessly push a boulder up ...

On a cold yet sunny afternoon in 2019, Mark Sell decided to go for a walk with his metal detector. A retired firefighter, Sell was sweeping his device across the ground when it started to faintly beep ...

Archaeologists searching the Judean Desert in hopes of finding additional Dead Sea Scrolls recently made an unexpected discovery of an ancient pyramid structure. Located 72 miles south of Jerusalem, ...

Beneath a stone foundation in Velzeke, Belgium, researchers recently made an astounding discovery: the well-preserved remains of an ancient Roman dog. This find was one of more than 700 relics dating ...

History is rife with tragic love stories, but few have the lasting impact of the story of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. While their relationship carried political weight, it was also romantic — and much ...

A team of researchers in New Zealand that was recently conducting tests on sharks never expected to make history — and capture the first recordings of shark sounds ever made. While examining various ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence of a 555-million-year-old worm-like creature in Australia. As if that wasn’t exciting enough, experts believe this is the first ancestor of all animals — including ...

Archaeologists have long known about the ancient Farley Moor standing stone, located inside Farley Wood in Derbyshire, England. But a new investigation has revealed something surprising about this ...

With waves as tall as 100 feet and capable of moving as fast as jet planes, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami devastated more than a dozen countries and left nearly 230,000 people dead. On the morning of ...