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April 17, 2017

NASA astronaut's space treasure map sparks hunt for Caribbean wrecks

Astronaut Gordon Cooper was a born explorer. He broke countless NASA space flight records, like the longest single-man space flight, a 122-hour mission. But one of his greatest achievements may not have been unveiled if it wasn’t for his willingness to share a secret he had kept for more than 40 years.

April 12, 2017

Gold locket tells story of love and loss on the Titanic

An 18-carat gold locket recovered from the Titanic wreck -- and soon going on display for the first time -- tells a story of love and loss that could rival the blockbuster Hollywood movie.

April 10, 2017

Rare Titanic photo up for auction, offers glimpse into doomed liner's final days

A rare photograph of the Titanic, likely taken the day before she set sail on her fateful maiden voyage, is up for auction in the U.K.

April 10, 2017

Walking dead? Medieval villagers zombie-proofed their corpses

Zombies are hardly a modern preoccupation.

April 7, 2017

Viking discovery: Experts use tech to reveal settlement beneath saint-king's church

Archaeologists in Norway are using laser scanning technology to help reveal the ancient Viking settlement hidden beneath a saint-king’s church.

April 5, 2017

Gladiator games: Experts harness tech to reveal Roman city's secrets

Archaeologists in Austria have deployed magnetometers and ground-penetrating radar to discover the concession stands and shops that supported an ancient city’s gladiator games.

April 5, 2017

Search is on for Caligula's 2,000-year-old orgy boat

The "party boats" of Roman Emperor Caligula were so legendary that Benito Mussolini partially drained a lake in order to find two of them a century ago.

April 4, 2017

Why the English once chopped up their dead

We humans can be a superstitious lot, and scientists are revealing yet another example of the extremes we'll go to in the fight to keep evil and danger at bay.

April 4, 2017

Egypt just found another ancient pyramid

An excavation team in Egypt has found what appears to be the interior of a buried pyramid dating back 3,700 years to the 13th dynasty.

April 2, 2017

Rare Adolf Hitler propaganda pictures show dictator posing with kids, baby deer

Hundreds of black-and-white images show the Nazi dictator grinning and interacting with children in an effort to portray him as a “personal friend and guardian of the German youth.”