6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (709+ words) The mundane work of clearing grass and stones in a backyard has led to the discovery of Denmark's largest known hoard of Viking Age silver. The finder, a man based in the northern Danish municipality of Rebild who wishes to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (264+ words) A massive, tree-covered island mysteriously emerged in a remote Canadian reservoir before vanishing from sight just weeks later. Now, the phantom floating landmass has been found again — about 20 miles from its last known location. The floating island on British Columbia’s…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (808+ words) Snow-capped for much of the year, Mount Olympus, mythological home of ancient Greece’s 12 Olympian gods, has captured the imagination through the millennia. Rising to 9,573 feet from a base practically at sea level, the ancient Greeks believed the throne of Zeus,…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (460+ words) Archaeologists revealed Thursday that they have discovered a structure near the prehistoric stone circle of Stonehenge in southern England that may have served as a “prototype” for the 5,000-year-old Neolithic monument. Related video above: A new megalithic tomb found in…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (537+ words) Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery. While other mummies in the area have been found with sealed packages containing…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (586+ words) The German submarine captain saw his target’s silhouette against the evening sky off the coast of southern England and gave the command to fire a single torpedo. It was the last anyone would see of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (639+ words) A fossilized skull and jawbones found in Niger belonged to a creature that had a large, bony crest atop its head and lived some 95 million years ago. Named Spinosaurus mirabilis, it is the first species of Spinosaurus to be identified…...