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

The marble slab, which dates to between 300 and 500 C.E., is the oldest-known stone tablet inscribed with the Commandments.

As Forbes ’ Leslie Katz reports, Pope Francis, the current head of the Catholic Church, encouraged the Fabbrica di San Pietro ...

The invention uses light, sound and bubbles to quickly create copies of soft tissue that might one day support testing individualized therapies for cancer and other diseases ...

Patients, Pioneers, Artists" spotlights the women who influenced the Austrian neurologist—and the field of psychoanalysis ...

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

A handwritten note by Richard William Smith, a British businessman who perished in the disaster, is heading to the auction ...

The president's humble speech, delivered on this day in 1863, was filled with profound reverence for the Union's ideals—and ...

Cue the panda cam: The Zoo’s two newest residents, Bao Li and Qing Bao, will make their debut in January Lonnie G. Bunch III ...

Under pressure from his wealthy family, real estate heir Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander claimed that his new wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, had tricked him into believing she was white ...

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

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