Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

A West Virginia jury has convicted a couple who were accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children, ...

Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic ...

Some organisms can outlive humans by hundreds or even thousands of years, and the contender for Earth's oldest living thing ...

Bell breathed his last on January 25, according to World Athletics which paid tribute to the 1956 Olympic long jump gold ...

Jessica Alba's life includes a mysterious 1996 kidnapping that occurred while she was filming in Australia at age 15. Despite ...

Found in a roughly 350-year-old manuscript by Dutch biologist Johannes Swammerdam, the scientific illustration shows the brain of a honeybee drone.

The Imago Mundi, the world's oldest map, has been re-examined by scientists who now claim it shows the exact location of Noah ...

Binondo in Manila is home to countless gems, from cool street art, to lifestyle hubs, to the best Chinese food, and to lucky ...

Assad’s fall in December, prominent Sunni religious leaders returned from exile to counter the dominant Salafist influence, ...

A teenager whose discovery in a locked shed at her West Virginia home led to the arrest of her adoptive parents has taken the ...

Their conclusion: the cannon was the oldest gun ever found within the continental United States. The cannon is a wall or rampart gun, designed to rest on the parapet of an adobe house, a tripod in the ...