The historic Williamsburg Bray School operated from 1760 to 1765 in Virginia and educated mostly enslaved students — encouraging them to accept enslavement as part of God's plan.

While their stomach contents prove that some of their last meals included woolly rhino and a small bird called a wagtail, experts still aren't sure how they died, though some think they may have been trapped when their underground den collapsed.

A man and a woman were caught on security camera damaging the "Van Gogh" chair, a work of art created by Nicola Bolla, in the Palazzo Maffei museum in Verona, Italy.

Found mere steps away from the University of Wrocław Institute of Archaeology, these German, Polish, and Soviet helmets span several decades.

Now correctly identified as "The Rising Squall," this 1792 masterpiece is not only remarkable as a rediscovered Turner, but as the very first oil painting he ever exhibited.

A new image from NASA shows how a tornado that hit Kentucky in May made its mark through Daniel Boone National Forest.

After the painting was painstakingly restored, it was revealed to be the 1666 masterpiece "View of Olinda, Brazil" by Dutch artist Frans Post, one of the few European painters to visit the Americas in the 17th century.

The pink diamond may have been part of a cache of jewelry that Marie Antoinette gave to her hairdresser for safekeeping before attempting to flee Paris during the French Revolution.

After studying animal bones found at sites in Israel, Spain, and Africa that hold some of the earliest evidence of fire, scientists from Tel Aviv University concluded that our ancestors first used fire to preserve meat and ward off scavengers.