Supai is so remote, mail is delivered by mule train

A digital-savvy historian discusses his popular @HistOpinion Twitter account

The ‘greatest pandemic in history’ was 100 years ago – but many of us still get the basic facts wrong

Pizza and pasta are pretty obviously out, but what are the other no-nos?

The USS Silversides is patrolling the Pacific during WWII when it finds itself in a terrifying situation: one of its torpedoes has jammed

After the Napoleonic Wars caused a shortage of British Oak, frigate builders looked all over the empire for an alternative. They found one in India

It's June 1945 and the USS Barb has just launched an unprecedented attack on the factories of the Japanese island of Shari

On February 9, 1945, two submarines are poised to engage in a direct, underwater confrontation. It's the first - and only - underwater submarine dog fight

Built nearly 4,700 years ago as a tomb for the pharaoh Djoser, the structure underwent more than a decade of on-and-off restorations

‘What on earth were they doing there?’ one researcher asks

The Spanish Surrealist painted a series of 100 watercolors inspired by Dante's "Divine Comedy"

After four months of unexpected dimming, the red supergiant star has perked back up, and astronomers may have a new explanation for the fluke

At 5,000 years old, the weapon predates the era when humans first started using tin to make bronze

The new findings raises questions about the authenticity of a collection of texts known as the "post-2002" scrolls

The Library Street Collective's "We All Rise" coloring book features drawings by around 30 contemporary artists

Remarkable fossil hints at the traits birds evolved just before an asteroid wiped their nonavian dinosaur kin

Many teens have taken on the role, but not every Robin was a "boy" wonder

But the scientists still aren’t sure what the birds are saying

Greenery is sprouting from scorched tree trunks as the forests regrow their canopies

The marble slab appears to be Greek in origin and may have been written in response to the death of a tyrant on the island of Kos

"We thought it was a good idea to get a comprehensive record of the site while we could in case the water levels rise," says one official

Delaying the Games for a year is considered by many to be the best course of action for public health

The tremors, which arrived in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, was the worst the Croatian capital has seen in 140 years

The pint-sized, mustachioed Gaul immortalized in the French cartoon has spawned films, a theme park and many other spin-offs

The missionary who lived in the house during the mid-1800s delivered vaccinations to locals during a smallpox epidemic

With no new infections reported in Hubei province in recent days, restrictions are easing up—but experts worry about possible 'second wave' of cases

The exact molecule behind the Minamata mercury disaster, caused by a chemical plant’s wastewater, remains a point of disagreement

Illustrators are sharing artwork of Amabie, a spirit first popularized during the Edo period, on social media

Matilda McCrear was just 2 when she was captured and brought to Alabama on the "Clotilda"

Americans have some time before social distancing measures can let up—and every day counts

A rare cache of aquatic animal remains suggests that like early humans, Neanderthals were exploiting marine resources

Storms reveal, then hide, the ship's sand-covered remains every decade or so

Hailing from all over Australia, the spiders were identified by a scientist who used to fear them

The impact that created Pluto’s 'heart' may have rippled through its ocean and damaged its rear