In the true story behind "50 First Dates," Michelle Philpots of Lincolnshire, England developed a rare form of amnesia due to two vehicle crashes, preventing her from forming long-term memories.

From temples and monuments to cities and settlements, these magnificent ruins help unlock the mysteries of humanity's shared past. Empires rise and fall, but even when the last people of any culture ...

In 2019, a joke Facebook event titled "Storm Area 51" went viral, attracting millions of RSVPs and widespread concerns that a massive crowd would try to breach the secretive U.S. government facility.

In 2023, a group of archaeologists climbed inside a cliffside cave overlooking the Dead Sea to investigate an ancient carving on a stalactite, a previously-documented 2,700-year-old inscription from ...

Despite having both xanthism and albinism, this Caribbean nurse shark survived well into adulthood, raising new questions about the conditions and the species' adaptability. During a sport fishing ...

Metal detectorists found 600 silver and gold medieval coins, likely buried in the 15th century, in a forest outside Bochnia, Poland.

Ted Hughes was Britain's Poet Laureate for years, but his reputation was damaged after the suicide of his wife, Sylvia Plath, in 1963.

The massive floods that swept through Texas this July uncovered 115-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Travis County. A volunteer discovered the footprints while helping with post-flood clean-up, and ...

A submerged bathhouse discovered among the ruins of Baiae may have been part of the villa that belonged to the famous orator Cicero.

The remains of at least seven infant children were discovered during the latest archaeological campaign at Uşaklı Höyük in Turkey. The infant remains, found near a mysterious Hittite structure, were ...

Hanoi Hannah, whose real name was Trinh Thi Ngo, used her propaganda radio show during the Vietnam War to encourage American soldiers to defect.

Big Jim Colosimo laid the groundwork for the Chicago Outfit before his murder in May 1920, after which his operation passed into the hands of Johnny Torrio, then Al Capone.