In 1926, salesman Scott Wallace claimed to find a hidden city in a Missouri cave — then vanished before revealing its ...

The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...

The Black Madonna is an enigmatic and often hotly debated figure in religious history, attracting both reverence and intrigue ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of ...

Discovery Channel’s popular show “Expedition Unknown” was on site to document the discovery of 12 human skeletons and ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

The male ruler of Ireland's fairy folk appears in many guises throughout folklore including the benevolent Finvarra and the ...

Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new ...

ZDF Studios and Impossible Factual, who have already partnered on several documentaries, are teaming up again on two programs ...