A team of researchers has seemingly located the wreck of the Koning Willem de Tweede, a Dutch merchant ship that was lost off the Australian coast in 1857. According to a new press release from the ...

San Teodoro cave in Sicily is one of the most important Pleistocene sites in the central Mediterranean. It’s been studied extensively over the years, with a special focus on a number of early human ...

These photos of Elvis Presley capture the tumultuous arc of his life and career, from "Heartbreak Hotel" and his marriage to Priscilla, to his drug use and early demise in 1977 at the age of just 42.

Prehistoric wooden spears found decades ago in Schöningen, Germany were once thought to be around 300,000 years old. It was thus believed that they were made by an early human ancestor known as Homo ...

From the Deadly Dentist to the Texas Ranger who took down Bonnie and Clyde, discover the riveting stories of the most famous lawmen of the American frontier. The Wild West is an almost mythological ...

Bartholomew William Barclay “Bat” Masterson was not a man easily defined. Throughout his life, he played several different roles, most notably a buffalo hunter, army scout, lawman, gambler, ...

Perhaps no one exemplifies the blurred lines between a Wild West lawman and an outlaw quite like Henry Newton Brown. Born in 1857 and raised in Rolla, Missouri, Brown was orphaned at a young age and ...

During routine excavations ahead of the construction of a new student residence in Leuven, Belgium, archaeologists stumbled upon a spectacular find. Around 13 feet beneath the modern city street, they ...

John Henry “Doc” Holliday was born on August 14, 1851, in Griffin, Georgia. He was the son of Henry Burroughs Holliday and Alice Jane McKey (sometimes spelled McKay). Despite being born with a cleft ...

Henry Andrew “Heck” Thomas was born on Jan. 6, 1850, in Oxford, Georgia, the youngest of 12 children born to Lovick Pierce and Martha Ann Fullwood Bedell Thomas. Starting his life shortly before the ...

James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok lived a truly wild life — but it arguably had an even more wild end. It was fitting, perhaps, for a man who embodied the spirit of the Wild West better than most others ...

John Coffee “Jack” Hays was a prototypical Texas Ranger renowned for his leadership who eventually became the first sheriff of San Francisco. He was born on Jan. 28, 1817, in Little Cedar Lick, Wilson ...