Divers exploring the remains of Asini found significant ruins of port infrastructure including a large platform that's mostly retained its original shape as well as a wealth of amphorae and assorted artifacts.

The animal bone tools, the oldest ever discovered, were likely used to remove meat from the carcasses of creatures like hippos and elephants.

On June 20, 1944, a 22-year-old bombardier from Cleveland named Robert T. McCollum was flying in a B-24J Liberator over the Baltic Sea near the coast of Denmark when his plane accidentally collided with another aircraft in their own formation.

The sketch was completed by English portraitist George Romney in the late 1700s and depicts his friend and patron Henrietta Greville, Countess of Warwick.

When Monika Fritzl was 14 years old, she learned that her grandfather Josef was also her father — and he had held her mother captive in the family basement as a sex slave for more than two decades.

In 1777, British troops raided the Continental Army's storehouses in Connecticut and burned vast caches of food — but when one general expressed his concern in a letter to George Washington, the future president responded with steadfast resolve and optimism.

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Ptolemais on Libya's Mediterranean coast recently explored a Roman-era villa adorned with a haunting mold of a human face that looks like it's trying to break through.

While preparing for demolition of one office building and construction of another right in the heart of London, workers just uncovered remains of the city's original Roman basilica.

The grave and the dagger date back to the second or third century C.E., and the method of the burial suggests that the man may have been a soldier who faced a dishonorable death.

A 1915 film about Abraham Lincoln and life in America during the Civil War, The Heart Of Lincoln had been declared lost by the Library of Congress before it was recently rediscovered in New York.

The 133-line scroll — the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert — was recently translated and contains prosecutors' notes about a criminal trial before Roman officials.