Women like Mae Capone and Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti stood behind their gangster husbands for better or for worse.

The research team uncovered the treasure while examining a field in Årdal, Norway ahead of the construction of a new road.

Archaeologists excavating caves in Malaysia's Nenggiri Valley unearthed 16 Neolithic burials and more than 71,000 prehistoric ...

Before the Fukushima disaster of 2011, the Tokaimura nuclear accident was the worst in Japan’s history. On Sept. 30, 1999, a combination of safety shortcuts, human error, and lack of oversight led to ...

Pantelleria is a dot on the map, a tiny island located about midway between Sicily and Tunisia. But 2,000 years ago, it was likely the site of danger and drama, as a hoard of recently discovered Roman ...

Archaeologists expect to find relics from the past, but not relics left behind by other researchers just like them. A team of student volunteers recently came across a particularly unusual artifact ...

While the Los Angeles Mafia never rose to the same notoriety as its counterparts in New York and Chicago, the crime family infiltrated Hollywood, had a hand in the growth of Las Vegas, and terrorized ...

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Assos in modern-day Türkiye have uncovered a 1,700-year-old Roman ringstone with a depiction of Athena, the goddess who was believed to have protected the city.

Though the RMS Carpathia was some 58 miles away when it received the Titanic's distress call, the steamer navigated treacherous waters at top speed to reach the sinking ship — and managed to rescue ...

Tattooed in blue dye from head to toe, the Picts were an ancient people who once inhabited Scotland and turned back the Roman Empire. Some 2,000 years ago, Scotland was home to a group of people known ...

The concept of “blue zones,” or areas where people supposedly live longer and healthier lives, gained widespread attention after journalist Dan Buettner coined the term in the early 2000s and wrote ...