When The Phantom of the Opera opened on January 26, 1988, there was no way to know that it would become the longest-running ...

When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase ...

Beginning this Friday, January 24, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are officially on view to the public at the Smithsonian’s ...

Officials have announced a number of discoveries during excavations around the valley temple of the powerful Egyptian queen, ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

The solitary fish named Mambo stopped eating and seemed to be missing its human visitors—so aquarists attached photos of ...

Earth-bound landmarks ravaged by war, climate change, tourism and other threats also landed in the World Monuments Watch report Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Experts are concerned that artifacts ...

Using ground-penetrating radar and laser scanners, researchers identified subterranean structures just a few feet below the ...

Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and winepress Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Archaeologists have uncovered an ...

DNA extracted from 57 individuals buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery provides evidence of a “matrilocal” community in Iron Age Britain, a new study suggests Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent ...

Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...