From the Antikythera Mechanism to Tesla’s so-called earthquake machine, history is full of inventions that vanished too soon.

History is seen by many as a series of organized chapters in a book. But the truth is that the world is a whole lot more ...

DNA analysis of 1,100 to 1,300-year-old dried human feces has provided insights into the pathogens that afflicted ancient Mexican people. The team led by Indiana University in the US analyzed ten ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Election Commission is trying to figure out how a contract for new machines for voting for $28 million ended up costing the agency $4 million more. The ...

When the dark magician was wheeled out before the audience—with an eerie and inscrutable expression on his face, and dressed in mystical robes and bejeweled turban—a hush fell over the court of ...

A 750-pound (340-kg) Mississippi alligator was killed in Eagle Lake Mississippi earlier this year. Inside it, butchers found “the shock of the year” - two ancient Native American artifacts, a 1,700-BC ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the ...

Researchers have analyzed the exceptionally well-preserved remains of a young adult male who died about 1,000 years ago in Mexico. He died in his early adulthood (21-35), and his remains were ...