Sheffield Castle once stood at the confluence of two rivers in the north England city, surviving for centuries until it was ...

Museum Conservation Institute scientists used a nondestructive technique called X-ray fluorescence spectrometry to analyze ratios of elements in the obsidians. The process works by “exciting” atoms in ...

What began as a Civil War relic hunt turned into something much bigger. In the middle of the woods, we uncovered not just battlefield artifacts, but also several forgotten classic cars — rusted, ...

The Tennessee State Museum’s latest temporary exhibition, "Photography in Tennessee: Early Studios and the Medium’s First Century," opens June 10. The show explores the origins and impact of ... more ...

The shaded hilltop near Pineville is more than a hundred miles from the sprawling campus of LSU in Baton Rouge. But this is where Louisiana State University began more than 160 years ago. “I’m an ...

The Civil War began at 4:30 am on April 12, 1861 at Ft. Sumter, Charleston, SC. Confederate gunners fired on Ft. Sumter in Charleston, SC on April 12, 1861. Ft. Sumter fell 34 hours later.

An Ancient Christian tomb complex dating back 1,500 years was discovered by a contractor who was clearing rubble beneath a destroyed house in Syria's Idlib province.

President Trump is sending tanks rolling through the streets of the capital not to honor service, but to celebrate power.

Historians are hoping to keep the military from destroying historic buildings and other artifacts from the World War II ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the ...