Just three years after Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared in 1937, a forensic anthropologist name D. W. Hoodless studied some bones found off the island of Nikumaroro. He concluded they were from a male, so they weren’t hers; ever since then, the mystery has deepened and fascinated school children and adults alike …

Scientists have a strange theory for how the 1,400-year-old remains of women who possessed features completely unlike the local population – including elongated skulls – ended up in present-day Bavaria. Joachim Burger, an anthropologist and population geneticist at Johannes Gutenberg University, and colleagues posit the women were high-status “treaty brides” from Romania and Bulgaria sent …

A well-crafted insult is a beautiful thing. Putting together just the right words to cut your opponent to the core is an art form. Masters of insults have been found in all times and all cultures.If you read history, you’ll discover that personal abuse has changed how events play out at times. So be careful …

A Perth family has found the world’s oldest known message in a bottle, almost 132 years after it was thrown into the sea, Australian experts say. Tonya Illman picked up the bottle while going for a walk around sand dunes on a remote beach in West Australia. Her husband Kym Illman told the BBC they …

A single detail can change everything about a monument, the written record, or an entire field. While not all discoveries are dramatic, every recovered piece is valuable. Even the shortest chapter of history is rarely complete.Pieces can turn up anywhere, hidden in plain sight or where none are expected. But it is not all about …