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November 28, 2016

Great Molasses Flood of 1919: Why this deluge of goo was so deadly

A bubbling flood of molasses that sent a towering wave of goo down the streets of Boston in 1919, catching everything from horses to humans in its sticky grasp, killing 21 people, injuring 150 more and flattening buildings in its wake.

November 25, 2016

Winning bid for Anne Frank poem stuns auctioneers

The Netherlands' Bubb Kuyper auction house expected the eight-line poem on a piece of old paper to sell for thousands.

November 25, 2016

In first since 1914, 'extremely rare' dodo skeleton sold

All that's left of the dodo bird is a smattering of bones—a nearly complete set of which has just sold for $431,000 at auction.

November 24, 2016

The real reason for Viking raids: Shortage of eligible women?

For all their infamous raiding and plundering, the Vikings who attacked from Scandinavia might have been just a bunch of lonely-hearted bachelors, new research suggests.

November 23, 2016

High school students unearth rare 4,000-year-old jug in Israel

A group of high school students participating in an archaeological excavation in Israel expected to uncover artifacts from long-ago civilizations buried deep in the ground.

November 23, 2016

Archaeologists discover evidence of original 1620 Plymouth settlement

Almost 400 years after the Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving, archaeologists have unearthed evidence of the original 1620 settlement in Plymouth, Mass.

November 18, 2016

Rare envelopes addressed by Charlotte Bronte up for auction

Two rare envelopes addressed by 19th-century British novelist and poet Charlotte Bronte are up for auction in the U.K. this weekend.

November 18, 2016

Excavations at Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre reveal Elizabethan secrets

Archaeologists have uncovered one of William Shakespeare's first theaters, offering insight into the famed productions.

November 17, 2016

Farmer's field yields hoard of English Civil War coins

A massive trove of coins from the English Civil War has been discovered near a British village.

November 17, 2016

3 WWII shipwrecks have mysteriously vanished

In 2002, divers stumbled upon the wrecks of three Dutch warships that took 900 crew members to their watery graves during World War II's Battle of the Java Sea.