Some of the gems may have featured in a royal scandal known as the "affair of the diamond necklace" that damaged the French ...

Although many picture L.A. with its vast sandy beaches to the west, the old Pueblo de Los Angeles actually formed further ...

The architectural wonder re-established the designer as a titan of his generation and shifted the public’s view of Modernism ...

Soon to be on display at the National Museum of American History, the laptop is the centerpiece of a criminal case that shows ...

Since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been naming America’s most endangered historic places, ...

Scientists analyzed the first and only rock samples from the region, which were brought back to Earth as part of a recent ...

While this quest may scare away arachnophobes, public donations of funnel-webs are critical to the mission of the Australian ...

The marble bust was made by the celebrated sculptor Edmé Bouchardon nearly 300 years ago. After a small town purchased it in ...

A tiny gladiator figurine was used as a handle on a 2,000-year-old copper folding knife found in an English river, suggesting ...

Scientists are celebrating the recovery of the species in Yosemite National Park, where they were decimated by the ...

The true, forgotten and sometimes-stinky history of the cohort who took Alexander Fleming's innovation and forever changed ...

The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Plaza in Montgomery ...