The "Missing Link" is the name given to a missing piece of anthropological history, between homo erectus and homo sapiens. In 2010, archaeologists uncovered bone fragments that may fill the gap in our ancestral history.
In 1982, an outsider encroached on the small primitive Toto tribe’s land and unknowingly introduced a disease that wiped out half the tribe within one week.
The Basque are one of Europe's most controversial cultures, situated geographically between northern Spain and southern France, the Basque have a rich history, but this 2,000 year-old relic changes what we know about them.
We've all been on hiking trips where we encountered bad weather or had to turn back due to a minor injury. But what about mind-bending wind? Mines dropped from aircraft? Or even inter-group violence? These hiking trips went so, disturbingly wrong that they're still a source of mystery today.
Peace is often hard to come by, particularly between two warring countries. But it should at least be fair. These were the times when peace was far from fair, some of the worst peace treaties ever negotiated.
Chief Pontiac made history as the leader of the brutal Pontiac’s War against the British Empire, but according to modern historians, new evidence reveals he wasn’t as powerful as we were made to believe.
When Scottish researchers found a small figurine in the earth on the Links of Noltland in Orkney, little did they know they'd found the Westray Wife, a 4-centimeter-high figurine from the Neolithic era.
You probably know that Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent settlement in the U.S., but did you know about other North American colonies that weren't so successful? Let's examine the North American colonies that came down almost as quickly as they went up.
It can be tough to memorize everything that happened in history class in high school, but there are some pretty clear highlights that we’re all expected to remember. However, there are some questions about our history that a lot of Americans get wrong—and these are the most common ones.
