The discovery was announced in a statement from Utrecht University, describing the camp as a 22-acre temporary military outpost with a roughly nine-foot-wide defensive rampart, a ditch, and several ...

Between 1899 and 1951, J. C. Leyendecker drew 322 covers for the Saturday Evening Post, created thousands of advertisements for companies like Kellogg's and Ivory Soap, and invented the idealized ...

Zack Snyder’s 2006 film 300 was a major box office success and a cultural touchstone, largely thanks to the film’s iconic line, “This is Sparta!” While the real King Leonidas never shouted those words ...

The man had seemingly died “painlessly,” and the electric chair thus seemed like a new, more humane method of execution. “The sentence of the court,” the judge told Kemmler, according to court ...

In 1903, a strange mix-up occurred at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. When a man named Will West arrived at the prison, the clerk on duty was certain he had processed him before.

But the king wasn’t happy with the National Constituent Assembly, and he quietly began to call in troops around Paris in early July. Rumors soon spread that Louis XVI would forcibly shut the assembly ...

According to a new study published in Science, birds have been nesting in the Arctic for far longer than previously known.Though places like Alaska are rife with birds and their young today, this ...

Archaeologists have now fully unearthed the remains of one of the largest Roman villas that ever stood in ancient Gaul. This comes decades after a portion of the site, near Auxerre in central France, ...

America’s involvement in the Vietnam War was contentious, to say the least. Despite U.S. President Richard Nixon calling on the so-called “silent majority” who supported the country’s actions in ...

Around 1533, the Ottoman sultan broke custom to marry his favorite concubine Hürrem Sultan — and she soon became the most powerful woman in the empire. She was known by many names: Hürrem Sultan, ...

Archaeologists in Spain recently unearthed a rock that somewhat resembled a human face, especially because of a small red dot where the nose would be. Now, the story behind that dot has left ...

The American Civil War marked a major turning point in the history of the United States. Less than a century after it was officially founded, the U.S. was at risk of becoming two different countries, ...