A ship discovered off the coast of North Carolina in 1997 has been identified by experts as the Queen Anne's Revenge, a ship used by the pirate Blackbeard. The ship was originally named Le Concorde before the pirate seiz...

Just reading this article can be painful. It has descriptions of the horrible treatments that were often the only thing available for what ailed you in the Middle Ages. It was not a pleasant time to be a patient, but i...

The flea circus sounds funny, but it was once a se...  ...animal cruelty. Either way, these images and this history are amazing.A flea, with legs finer than a human...

The favorite perfume of powerful Egyptian "she king" Hatshepsut may be resurrected from residue found in a 3,500-year-old perfume bottle. X-ray photographs of the 4.7-inch-tall (12-centimeter-tall) bottle,...

Do you ever think bad luck follows you around? Tsutomu Yamaguchi was on a business trip to Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945 when the US dropped the first atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns and stayed ove...

Last year, an archive of World War II maps was donated to the British Library Map Library. Some of these maps are now on display to the public, and they have fascinating story behind them!Waddington PLC, the printing com...

History is consistently shaped by consensus, but consensu...  ...ntellectual kind of course. Anyone who studies history quickly discovers that ideas don't come cheaply a...

Ever wonder what happens if a conjoined twin perishes while still attached to their sibling? In much the same way, Camilo Jose Vergaga explores the results of having one half of a building deserted while the other half r...

The story behind this saga of the mysterious old car collection is long, twisted and still uncertain. Some time ago someone anonymously posted pictures of dozens or more classic cars covered in dust and apparently hidden...

Emilio Marcos Palma made history , and the Guiness Book of World Records, in 1978 j...