Sarah Goode was one of several Black women who received patents in the 1880s. The year after Goode submitted the patent ...

Throughout the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the early years of the Gilded Age, Thomas Nast used his political cartoons published in Harper's Weekly to satirize current events, expose corruption, and ...

Between the mid-1910s and the 1930s, an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica (EL) spread around the world, affecting more than 1 million people and leading to an estimated 500,000 deaths. The ...

John Nash was a brilliant mathematician who is best known for his contributions to game theory. However, his academic career was curtailed due to his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia, which caused ...

During routine excavations ahead of the construction of a new student residence in Leuven, Belgium, archaeologists stumbled upon a spectacular find. Around 13 feet beneath the modern city street, they ...

Drought struck British India after a failed monsoon season in 1876, leaving crops withering in the fields and sending food prices soaring. When the drought extended through the next summer, millions ...

Prehistoric wooden spears found decades ago in Schöningen, Germany were once thought to be around 300,000 years old. It was thus believed that they were made by an early human ancestor known as Homo ...

These photos of Elvis Presley capture the tumultuous arc of his life and career, from "Heartbreak Hotel" and his marriage to Priscilla, to his drug use and early demise in 1977 at the age of just 42.

During recent excavations in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David area, an archaeologist pulled a gold ring out of the dirt. At first, researchers thought that the ring, found in excellent condition, ...

During excavations ahead of the construction of a tunnel on the coast of Sweden, archaeologists came across half a dozen shipwrecks deep in the mud. Representing several centuries of shipbuilding ...

Archaeologists exploring the numerous underground chambers at the ancient Chavín de Huántar complex in Peru have found evidence of ritual practices involving hallucinogenic drugs, confirming long-held ...

Last year, a metal detectorist stumbled upon a tiny treasure in Leeds, England. While scouring a local field, they came across a cross-shaped pendant, which experts say dates back to the 8th century C ...