The fragile scrolls from the ancient city of Herculaneum have been destroyed by physical unwrapping, and so scientists plan to use A.I. and machine learning to virtually read their text.

The two-year-old dachshund named Buddy was found abandoned in a trailer park in the pouring rain.

Canada forcibly enrolled an estimated 150,000 children in these institutions. Many experienced abuse or died without their families ever being notified.

These Hunter S. Thompson quotes could be the soul-stirring reminder that adventure is just around the corner.

"If you treat [pit bulls] right, they would give their life for you and I owe my son's life to him."

Fewer than 1,500 of Borneo's pygmy elephants remain in the wild. Their latest casualty was particularly brutal.

"They took it home and buried it. You have to remember that fossils weren't really explained until Darwin came along."

Baby bottles date back thousands of years — and may help explain a prehistoric baby boom.

Fault lines would have provided the Incas with loads of pre-fractured rock — perfect for building.

Hustle into the 1970s with these eye-popping pictures from when the disco era took over clubs around the world.

The Barnetts adopted Natalia Grace of Ukraine in 2010. They were told she was six, but her vocabulary and adult teeth suggested otherwise.