World History

After decades of speculation about what really happened at Roswell in 1947, the US Air Force revealed that many UFO conspiracy theorists had been right—just not in the way they expected.

Ancient DNA uncovered a tiny population of early Europeans who lived 45,000 years ago before disappearing without any descendants.

Scientists are debating whether ancient humans survived near-extinction events, from a mysterious 900,000-year-old bottleneck to the massive Toba supereruption.

A drowned Ice Age coastline off northwestern Australia may hold vital clues to how ancient humans crossed seas, settled Sahul, and spread across the continent.

Archaeologists in Slovakia uncovered human remains inside wells and shallow graves at a Roman military camp linked to Marcus Aurelius, leaving experts searching for answers about the site’s mysterious end.

Here are 42 facts about the machines that have smashed, shot, burned, and gone bang throughout history.

For more than two millennia, a Roman merchant vessel rested beneath the Mediterranean off Sicily. In August 2026, spear fishermen Giacomo De Mola and Igor Bisulli stumbled onto the site near Mazara del Vallo. What looked like a rock turned out to be hundreds of ancient amphorae, lead anchor stocks, and a wreck that could reveal more about trade before the Roman Empire.

Discover how ancient humans in Ethiopia survived the Toba supereruption by fishing in shrinking river pools, adapting to drought, and creating blue highways that may have supported human migration worldwide.

Archaeologists in Malta uncovered evidence that hunter-gatherers crossed roughly 100 kilometers of open Mediterranean water 8,500 years ago, rewriting the history of ancient seafaring.

Homo sapiens existed in Africa for hundreds of thousands of years before finally spreading across the world—and scientists finally know what changed.