The dead language was once the dominant tongue in Mesopotamia
Isaac Royall, Jr., who helped found the school in 1817, was a prosperous slaveholder
The city destroyed by a 4th-century tsunami is rediscovered
On Sunday, residents living within a mile of the site left their homes while the 4,000-pound "Blockbuster" was defused
The centuries-old texts were erased, and then written over, by monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt
Between 1697-1698, the tsar visited Europe in disguise to learn about shipbuilding and Western culture. His verdict? Shave
The singer-songwriter's childhood stamp album offers an insight to his character
‘Free Air’ was a classic of the interwar generation
Archaeologists tested three methods the early hominins could have used to get tar from birch bark
She was the first female telephone operator. Before her, telephone operators were teenaged boys. That didn't go so well
They say baseball "lost its innocence" after 1919, but betting and other improper behavior was rampant in early-20th-century baseball
Residue from pots found in a Sicilian cave show grape wine was produced 3,000 years earlier than thought
A new study shows that the human remains looted in 2012 are more than 13,000 years old
The term 'magic bullet' once just meant a targeted drug
Using charm and cunning, she helped uncover Nazi plans to build deadly V-1 and V-2 rockets
One of 42 Ming-era graves unearthed in Fuzhou is believed to belong to Tang Xianzu, who penned 'The Peony Pavilion'
A new analysis of hundreds of ancient skulls shows how often violent trauma affected the poor and the rich
The original vacuum cleaner required a number of improvements before becoming the household staple it is today
The groundbreaking mathematician and computer scientist who spent 2 years at Princeton wrote that he 'detests America' in newly found documents
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