Hobby Lobby smuggling ring: how an arts-and-crafts chain got involved in a controversial purchase of more than 5,500 artifacts from the Sumerian civilization
The decades-long mystery behind the “sailing stones” of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley may be solved
An Argentinean engineer could have developed a “rainmaking machine” as early as the 1930s, though there’s no trace of it today
Archaeologists uncover world’s largest child-sacrifice site in coastal Peru
First Titanic menu, listing options such as Spring Lamb and Pudding Sans Souci, fetched about $140,000 at an auction
Jack the Ripper “warning” postcard auctions for $30,000 but no one can confirm that he sent, or any other letters
A Strange Dark Cloud Appeared in 536 AD that Changed History Dramatically
The future Elizabeth I was cast off and virtually forgotten about as a child by King Henry VIII, forcing her governess to write letters begging for clothes
An archaeological dig on the Swedish island of Öland reveals a massacre that happened 1,500 years ago
President Theodore Roosevelt acquired a new pet from a 12-year-old girl on his 1903 whistle-stop tour of the West—a baby badger
