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.

The vast majority of the skulls originate from burial sites.

Archaeologists have found a runestone which they claim is the world’s oldest.

Media reports say about 400 items believed to have been hidden in the ground by their Jewish owners during World War II have been uncovered during house renovation work in a yard in Lodz in central Poland

Egyptian officials say an ancient wooden sarcophagus that was featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences has been returned to Egypt after U.S. authorities determined it was looted years ago

Scientists have made remarkable findings this year in the fields of archeology and paleontology.

The Israeli antiquities authority says archaeologists are excavating an ancient tomb traditionally associated with Jesus’s midwife in the hills southwest of Jerusalem

The wreckage of a ship that first set sail on Utah's Great Salt Lake 120 years ago can now be observed as the water body reaches historic lows.

Pulled from a sunken trunk at an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina, work pants that auction officials describe as the oldest known pair of jeans in the world have sold for $114,000

The wreckage of a cargo-carrying sailing vessel from the 1800s is believed to have been discovered on Florida's east coast in the wake of Hurricanes Ian and Nicole.

A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor gathered at the scene in Hawaii to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago in the Japanese bombing

Scientists have discovered the oldest known DNA.

A musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is getting returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, whose members had to flee the country to escape the Holocaust

The building and the paintings, which are famously known as the Fayoum portraits, date back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras.

Scientists have discovered the fossils of a new predatory dinosaur.

President Joe Biden’s eldest granddaughter, Naomi Biden, married Peter Neal on the South Lawn on Saturday.

The Jackson family has a history spanning five generations of rodeo champions.

A collection of touching and sometimes prescient personal letters written by a young Bob Dylan to a high school girlfriend has been sold at auction to a renowned Portuguese bookshop for nearly $670,000

The ball punched in by Diego Maradona for his “Hand of God” goal at the 1986 World Cup has been sold at auction for nearly $2.4 million by the referee who missed soccer’s most famous handball

Many are on a mission to find the first Black Marines that were established in 1942 as the Montford Point Marines.

The piece was found buried in sand at the bottom of the Atlantic 36 years later.

Colgate University is returning to the Oneida Indian Nation more than 1,500 items buried with ancestral remains

For decades, an important part of Greece’s cultural heritage sparkled only for the very few in a U.S. billionaire’s private collection, until a groundbreaking deal for its gradual return to Athens

A Tyrannosaurus rex skull is expected to sell for $15 million or more at auction in New York next month

A new exhibit celebrating King Tut is about to land in several cities with a very modern twist, taking a digital look at the boy king for the Instagram age

Thomas Cahill, a scholar of ancient languages and belief systems with a knack for popular storytelling who engaged history readers with such bestsellers as “How the Irish Saved Civilization” and “Desire of the Everlasting Hills,” has died at age 82

A drought has caused water levels to reach record lows.

Actress Anna May Wong, an actress who reached fame in the '20s and '30s, will be the first Asian American to appear on U.S. currency

Syria has uncovered a “rare” Roman mosaic in a former rebel stronghold

Swedish scientist Svante Pääbo won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology this week for his work in evolution by extracting DNA from the bones of Neanderthals.

A huge mural honoring Harriet Tubman was unveiled in Auburn, New York, where the abolitionist and activist lived for most of her life.

Producers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein sat down with ABC News to discuss their latest documentary for PBS, about U.S. attitudes and politics during the Holocaust.

Scientists have discovered remarkable evidence to show that the first known successful limb amputation on a human occurred about 31,000 years ago.

ABC News' Zohreen Shah gets an exclusive first look with two of the Dodgers' star players carrying on the legacy of one of baseball's most enduring trailblazers.

A scorching, global drought has uncovered lost artifacts around the world.

Amid a drought, the Dinosaur Valley State Park has discovered dinosaur footprints that have historically been covered by water and sediment. They date back more than 113 million years.

Dinosaur footprints that have been covered by water and sediment were discovered in Texas' Dinosaur Valley State Park.

Dinosaur Valley State Park saw new tracks as a drought unveiled the age-old wonders.

Severe European drought reveals sunken World War II warships on Danube River.

The emergence of a prehistoric stone circle from a reservoir after its waterline receded is an unexpected side effect of Spain's worst drought in decades.

Dozens of ancient works of art are being returned to Cambodia after they were seized by U.S. authorities.

"Souls of Cambodian culture repatriated, artifacts returned after smuggling and trafficking scheme.

The Gorgosaurus, a relative of T. Rex, was privately auctioned during the Natural History auction in New York on July 28.

A woman's ancestral search ends with a former slave's prayer answered.