Prehistoric wooden spears found decades ago in Schöningen, Germany were once thought to be around 300,000 years old. It was thus believed that they were made by an early human ancestor known as Homo ...

Perhaps no one exemplifies the blurred lines between a Wild West lawman and an outlaw quite like Henry Newton Brown. Born in 1857 and raised in Rolla, Missouri, Brown was orphaned at a young age and ...

During routine excavations ahead of the construction of a new student residence in Leuven, Belgium, archaeologists stumbled upon a spectacular find. Around 13 feet beneath the modern city street, they ...

John Coffee “Jack” Hays was a prototypical Texas Ranger renowned for his leadership who eventually became the first sheriff of San Francisco. He was born on Jan. 28, 1817, in Little Cedar Lick, Wilson ...

Pat Garrett is best known for taking down the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid in 1881, but that fateful encounter was not their first. Born on June 5, 1850 in Chambers County, Alabama, Garrett was one ...

James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok lived a truly wild life — but it arguably had an even more wild end. It was fitting, perhaps, for a man who embodied the spirit of the Wild West better than most others ...

Henry Andrew “Heck” Thomas was born on Jan. 6, 1850, in Oxford, Georgia, the youngest of 12 children born to Lovick Pierce and Martha Ann Fullwood Bedell Thomas. Starting his life shortly before the ...

Bartholomew William Barclay “Bat” Masterson was not a man easily defined. Throughout his life, he played several different roles, most notably a buffalo hunter, army scout, lawman, gambler, ...

Frank Hamer has, at times, been called the “greatest lawman of the 20th century.” He was most notable for ending the crime spree of Bonnie and Clyde, but his work as a lawman extended far beyond that.

"I could see visions of Belfast it must have been a trying time for the Captain," Richard Geddes wrote to his wife, four days before the Titanic sank. Richard Geddes, like many other ship stewards ...

For centuries, critics and observers alike have argued over if Mona Lisa is smiling. Do we now have an answer? The Mona Lisa is of course one of the world’s most famous pieces of artwork, yet people ...

During a Boy Scout camping trip in 2001, 13-year-old Cody Clawson got lost in Yellowstone National Park. After spending more than 18 hours in the wilderness, Clawson was rescued by the last person he ...