The golden ring bears a French inscription that expresses a desire to "serve" and was likely used for a courtly love affair.

The statue of the man holding his phallus at the ancient Karahan Tepe site may have been a "progenitor of a social group" and may be around 11,000 years old.

Elvis Presley was a 24-year-old soldier stationed in Germany when he started dating Priscilla Beaulieu, who was a freshman in high school at the time.

Ambergris, sometimes called "whale vomit," is used in expensive perfumes to make scents stick on the skin.

On the surface, these popular nursery rhymes may seem lighthearted, but their origin stories might be far darker than you ever imagined.

Using artificial intelligence to read the Vesuvius scrolls could have profound implications for our understanding of the ancient world, as many texts from antiquity have been lost through the ages.

William Shakespeare allegedly performed at St. George’s Guildhall in Norfolk at the end of the 16th century when London's theatres were closed because of the plague.

Ballooning happens every year, but experts aren't exactly sure why there have been so many of these spider sightings recently.

The extraordinary find confirms a long-held belief about Viking settlements on the island of Jomfruland.

Researchers announced that the woven grass sandals discovered in Spain's Cueva de los Murciélagos are roughly 6,200 years old, making them the oldest shoes ever discovered in Europe.

Following his groundbreaking career, Nikola Tesla descended into poverty and mental illness before dying on January 7, 1943.