ABC News' Linsey Davis spoke with author Todd Brewster about his new book "American Childhood: A Photographic History" which gives readers a glimpse at history through images of its youngest members.

An overdue book was returned to a California library earlier this month after being checked out for nearly 100 years.

ABC News’ Phil Lipof spoke with author Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl about his new book “The Last Secret of the Secret Annex” and how one of his family members may have betrayed Anne Frank and her family.

ABC News' Britt Clennett met with survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb that dropped in Hiroshima to talk about their mission to share their stories, so the world understands the horrors of nuclear war.

The digital scan shows the entire wreck in unprecedented detail and clarity.

Fossil fragments found in Spain are pointing to a new species of dinosaur, researchers say.

Christie’s is auctioning a staggering 700 pieces of jewelry from the collection of the late Heidi Horten, an Austrian heiress whose German husband built a retail empire starting in the 1930s — in part from department stores and other assets sold by des...

Republican officials in New Hampshire are objecting to a historical marker dedicated to labor activist who championed women’s rights and was a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, but who also led the Communist Party and was sent to prison

A historical discovery by divers off the coast of Florida may shed light into how much sea levels have risen in the last couple of centuries.

A historical discovery by divers off the coast of Florida may shed light into how much sea levels have risen in the last couple of centuries.

Six months after she was immortalized with a U.S. quarter, Asian American Hollywood trailblazer Anna May Wong has received another accolade affirming her icon status — her own Barbie

A dizzying number of props, sets and costumes from television shows beloved by generations of viewers will be sold at auction next month

Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusations led to murder of Emmett Till, has died at 88.

Herb Douglas, who turned a chance encounter with Jesse Owens as a teenager into fuel to win a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1948 Olympics, has died at 101

A Swiss auction house that sold a composite Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for over $5 million this week says the new owner, a Belgian art foundation, will exhibit the fearsome dinosaur at a new cultural center in Antwerp

The Greek god Eros riding a dolphin in the statuette.

A 3,200-year-old tomb belonging to Panehsy, the guard of the temple of the Egyptian deity Amun, has been uncovered in Saqqara necropolis.

A 3,200-year-old tomb belonging to Panehsy, the guard of the temple of the Egyptian deity Amun, has been uncovered in Saqqara necropolis.

A historic baseball stadium in Tokyo where Babe Ruth played could be demolished

Italy’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved a bill to fine vandals who damage monuments or other cultural sites up to 60,000 euros ($65,559).

A U.S. military laboratory has helped Swedes confirm that a woman was on a 17th century warship that sank on its maiden voyage in the Stockholm harbor

Historians say that transgender and gender diverse people are not a trend or new phenomenon.

One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts is up for sale — for a cool $30 million

The centuries-old cultural artifacts had been illegally smuggled out.

Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be a Roman shrine beneath a former graveyard in the grounds of a cathedral in central England

Authorities say archaeologists have unearthed a Sphinx-like Roman-era statue and the remains of a shrine in an ancient temple in southern Egypt

Archaeologists have found the first direct evidence for horseback riding in 5,000 year old skeletons in central Europe

A nine-meter long hidden passageway was discovered inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Egyptian tourism and antiquities minister announced on Thursday.

"Scanning work will continue to uncover more secrets,” said the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Egypt's antiquities authorities have unveiled a newly discovered chamber inside one of the Great Pyramids at Giza, just outside Cairo

New moai was discovered on Easter Island, according to Ma'u Henua vice president.

An international archeological mission has found the remnants of a 5,000-year-old restaurant in the ancient city of Lagash in southern Iraq

"GMA" co-anchor Michael Strahan also shares what it was like to travel to the remote Chilean island.

A new Moai statue was found in a dry lake bed on the remote inhabited island.

A new discovery has been made on Easter Island, famous for its massive stone statues carved many centuries ago.

A spectacular collection of centuries-old jewelry has been returned to Cambodia

Egypt’s ministry of tourism and antiquities has unveiled a newly renovated wing of its oldest museum

Under court order, the FBI has released a trove of photos, videos, maps and other documents involving its secretive search for Civil War-era gold

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution released new new-before-seen footage of the Titanic that was taken during its 1986 exploration.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is releasing more than 80 minutes of video of the dive led by Robert Ballard to its YouTube channel.

Deep in the rough waters of Lake Superior, researchers have discovered a 19th century shipwreck that had actually sank twice before its final demise.

Deep in the rough waters of Lake Superior, researchers have discovered a 19th century shipwreck that had actually sank twice before its final demise.

A site in Kenya has yielded some of the oldest stone tools ever found — and fueled a mystery of who used them

Shlomo Perel, who survived the Holocaust through surreal subterfuge and an extraordinary odyssey that inspired his own writing and an internationally renowned film, has died

A man in the U.K. has unearthed a 24-karat gold pendant and chain that experts say may be linked to King Henry VIII’s first wife! ABC News’ Will Ganss explains what he plans to do next.

Experts restoring the interior of Mexico City's Roman Catholic cathedral say they have found 23 lead boxes containing religious inscriptions and relics like small paintings and wood or palm crosses

Egyptologist Zahi Hawass said one mummy “may be the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt to date.”

Egypt on Thursday said it uncovered several 4,300-year-old tombs in Saqqara as it continues a series of discoveries in the ancient burial ground.

The fresco is from a city destroyed along with Pompeii by the Vesuvius eruption.

The photographs were taken in secret during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.