In 1785, a Spanish official named Don Diego Ruiz was looking for illegal tobacco plantations in the Papantla region of Mexico (then called New Spain), near the modern-day city of Veracruz, when he ...

Majorities of Americans are anticipating a year of political conflict and economic difficulty in 2025, a new Gallup poll found. The survey revealed that more than three-fourths of respondents ...

Map of the Saqqara plateau showing the watercourse from the Gisr el-Mudir dam to the water treatment facility near Djoser pyramid. The water is then transferred to the pyramid’s network of pipes ...

Fifty-one percent of Americans approve of the way President-elect Trump has handled his presidential transition, according to a new Gallup survey. It’s a slightly higher number than in December ...

The year’s most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost composition by Mozart and a medieval chess piece Fascinating finds unveiled ...

A declassified CIA document reveals that 40 years ago, a subject used astral projection to explore Mars around one million years BC. The subject reported seeing pyramids, large roads, and tall ...