Archaeologists from the the First Colony Foundation discovered pieces of 16th-century Algonquian pottery and a copper ring of European origins in North Carolina.

The communal bathroom, where Alexander the Great likely bathed with his close friend and suspected lover Hephaestion, was attached to a gymnasium where the men trained in sports and combat.

Just two weeks before St. Patrick's Day, a green Golden Retriever puppy named Shamrock was born in Pensacola, Florida.

Archaeologists discovered a large kiln used for making cookware and serving dishes and a second, smaller kiln used to hold pottery waste.

Saturn Devouring His Son is one of 18th-century artist Francisco Goya’s Black Paintings, a series of murals he painted directly onto the walls of his home in Spain while in the throes of mental illness.

Rakus, an adult male orangutan, was observed by researchers in Indonesia applying potent medicinal plants to an open wound — a behavior that has never been seen in a nonhuman animal before.

The Iron Age site near Amorosi, Italy dates to the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. and features dozens of tombs of high-status individuals from the "Pit Burial Culture."

Archaeologists analyzing turtle shell fragments found near Magdeburg, Germany, believe they may have been carried to the area by Ice Age hunters as a living food source.

Archaeologists used environmental DNA to make this "extraordinary" discovery beneath a 2,000-year-old ballcourt in the ancient Maya city of Yaxnohcah.

"Midtown Jane Doe," a body found encased in a cement floor in a Hell's Kitchen building in 2003, has officially been identified as 16-year-old Patricia Kathleen McGlone.

The 27 books from the personal library of the Brothers Grimm are providing new insights into how the men researched and crafted themes for their famous fairy tales.