6 February 2013
A delicate pair of slippers that had been sitting unnoticed in a Scottish university's collection for more than a century may have actually belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte's sister, Princess Pauline Borghese, researchers say.
For decades, hundreds of tattered scrapbooks, faded black-and-white photos and one-room schoolhouse ledgers lay tucked away in the corner of the Quakertown Community High School basement.5 February 2013
Following the discovery of Richard III’s skeleton under a Leicester car park, archaeologists are now turning their attentions to locating another lost king, Alfred the Great.
King Richard III, the last English king to die in battle, will be re-interred in a major ceremony at Leicester Cathedral after DNA tests confirmed his skeleton has been found under a council car park in the city.
The discovery of remains of Richard III almost never took place because a plumber came within inches of destroying the skeleton during construction of public lavatories, archeologists disclosed yesterday.30 January 2013
A large collection of John F. Kennedy’s memorabilia, including rare photos, letters, gifts and other unique items, have been discovered hidden away at the home of one of the president’s most trusted advisors.24 January 2013
There are more than just dead bodies buried in Green-Wood cemetery. A construction worker last week discovered a time capsule filled with historic books hidden inside a wall of the landmark cemetery’s crematorium.18 January 2013
Photographer Anton Orlov recently discovered over 600 color images from World War I on "Magic Lantern" slides in a house in Northern California.15 January 2013
On January 11, 1863, a Union warship was sunk in a skirmish with a Confederate vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Exactly 150 years later, a new 3D map of the USS Hatteras has been released that shows what the remains of the warship look like.14 January 2013
A man doing some renovations on a historic home found human bones in the cellar. The bones are believed to be more than 150 years old. The Maxwell family likes historic homes. When they stumbled upon Thistledome, one of the oldest homes in Marshall County, Mississippi, it was a no-brainer.11 January 2013
Lloyd and Marian Michael’s love letters were stolen from them in 1968. But a few months before the Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. couple’s 70th wedding anniversary, the letters were returned to their rightful owners.9 January 2013
On the surprising end you have things like the memory card with wedding photos still intact found a year and a half after an earthquake. On the amazing side you have the Kansas teen who bought a Polaroid camera at a garage sale and found a photo of his long-passed uncle inside.8 January 2013
Wonderful treasures attesting to the modern history of Thessaloniki were found among the refuse of an old World War I military hospital used by the Army of the Orient, which served on the Balkan front, items that had remained buried for almost 100 years on the outskirts of Thermi.7 January 2013
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch this past March, and discovered a secretly engraved message that turned an unsubstantiated family story into a confirmed historical event.
A couple who thought love letters they wrote during World War II were lost forever is reliving their past thanks to a stamp collector. Their messages were kept in a trunk, put away, they said, to keep the kids away.Older Posts - page 3 of 25 - Newer Posts