Scientists have identified the oldest-known reference to the Norse god Odin on a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark in 2020.
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Archaeologists used new cosmic ray cosmic rays to spot a 30-foot-long tunnel inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Daniel Fahrenheit joined the British Royal Society in the early 1700s, and the Fahrenheit scale quickly spread throughout the British empire.
One archaeologist called it "kind of a McDonald’s with prepared food for fast service."
From the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, these are some of the worst environmental disasters of the past 50 years.
Some earthquakes are never felt and others have devastating and deadly consequences.
A majority of states don't require Holocaust history in education curriculum. Survivor family members and museum curators are trying to change that.
Scripps News revisits the Illinois Holocaust Museum to hear from a survivor whose likeness and memories are preserved in holographic form.
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is forecasted to be the brightest from January 31 to February 1. Experts say it will be most visible just before dawn.
Many suspect the hundreds of items construction crews dug up in Lodz, Poland belonged to Jews who were hiding their valuables from the Germans.
The Svingerud stone has carved scribbles, which may be the earliest example of words recorded in writing in Scandinavia.
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The sarcophagus, almost 9.5 feet tall, may have belonged to an ancient priest named Ankhenmaat. It was smuggled through Germany into the U.S. in 2008.
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These are the singers, actors, politicians, athletes and other notorious people who died this year.
Researchers were able to get genetic information out of the small, damaged bits of DNA to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in Greenland.
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The New York-based Center for Jewish History is launching a project offering DNA testing kits for free to Holocaust survivors and their children.
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Nine international adventurers follow in the footsteps of one of the greatest legends of the golden age of polar exploration: Ernest Shackleton.
DNA pulled from bones in Siberian caves suggests Neanderthals lived together in small communities of 10 to 20 individuals more than 50,000 years ago.
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Newsy's Sasha Ingber and a small group of other descendants of Holocaust survivors met in D.C. where they welcomed a historian to give them insight.
Diana drove the black Ford Escort RS Turbo from 1985 to 1988.
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At Georgia Tech, a group of students are putting a modern spin on the traditional Philippine folk dance known as Tinikling.
Japanese photographer Kenji Kawano is working on a project nearly 5 decades in the making: preserving the legacy of Navajo Nation Code Talkers.
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set out on a British expedition to cross Antarctica. But in 1915, the ship got stuck and the crew abandoned it.
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Saturday, Jan. 19 marks the 80th anniversary of Pres. Roosevelt's executive order that authorized placement of 122,000 Japanese-Americans in camps.
As France faces election season, fury among opponents of COVID vaccines increasingly bubbles over into violence directed at elected representatives.
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Commemorations are taking place amid a rise of antisemitism that gained traction during lockdowns as the pandemic exacerbated hatred online.
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The Biden administration tapped nine social services agencies to help Afghan refugees transition to life in the U.S.
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Charlotte Maxwell-Jones started a veterinary clinic and animal rescue in Kabul.
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97-year-old retired American soldier Martin Adler met the three siblings in person for the first time since the war.
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Experts say an inscription of the tomb is the first evidence that Greek, the language of culture in the Mediterranean, was used alongside Latin.
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The government began to medically support certified survivors in 1968 after more than 20 years of effort by the survivors.
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The 97-year-old artist's work is available in a Boulder, Colorado, art gallery.
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After nearly 20 years, President Joe Biden says the U.S. military is exiting Afghanistan.
