An underwater explorer has found the wreck of the U.S.S. Grayback, dubbed one of the most successful submarines of World War II.
How we think about the mammoth has changed considerably over the millennia. Many years ago, it was quite a catch.
Caribbean tax havens, a mysterious international consortium, and a famous art detective are all involved in the mystery of the second ‘Mona Lisa’.
Some of the world’s most famous works of art are hiding interesting details that you might not have noticed.
Most countries are named after a directional description, a feature of the land, a tribe name, or a person. In Africa, that’s not always the case.
Few tales are as strange as that of Barbara Newhall Follett, whose life would go on to imitate the fiction that she first wrote when she was just nine.
Forget Jack and Rose, because some of the real-life events that took place on the Titanic are stranger than fiction.
While Hasbro celebrated female innovators with its new Monopoly set, they somehow forgot about the person who started it all.
For more than a decade, former apartheid spy Gordon Brookbanks has been teaching history at Westerford High.
Prince Philip’s first instinct was to cover his face with a newspaper. This, and other inside details, have been revealed by a royal insider.
Watch Helen Mirren as you’ve never seen her before, in the preview for HBO’s ‘Catherine The Great’.
The inspiration for the iconic Disney castle comes complete with a twisted tale of death and insanity.
The RMS Titanic was visited by divers for the first time in 14 years, and they found the once-grand ship in a deteriorating state.
It’s a beautiful house, in a stunning part of the world, with a horrifying history of paedophilia and mass murder.
Porsche says that the world’s first Porsche isn’t a Porsche at all. Then there’s the attempt to auction it off, which didn’t go as planned.
The iconic Kings Cinema has reopened in the township of Alex in Gauteng, having lost none of its charm.
Silicon Valley’s tech titans have revealed their favourite books. Evan Spiegel’s choice is a potentially unsettling read for South Africans.
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29AM, the first-ever nuclear weapon test was conducted near Socorro, New Mexico.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch. Whilst you probably know many of the ins and outs, there are still some surprises.
In a roundabout way, South African has the 1969 moon landing to thank for television making its way to our shores.
Settle in, kids, for a short history lesson. Unlike some others you may have skipped in years gone by, this one is pretty important.
Leonardo da Vinci made predictions about the natural world and technology, with some of those proven right over time.
Certain great invention stories have a simpler tale – Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone, or Thomas Edison and the light bulb – but the question of who invented pizza is a little more complicated.
Marie Antoinette’s private chambers reveal more than just lavish silk tapestries and over-the-top rococo flourishes.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation and AfriForum are currently doing battle in the Equality Court. Here are their central arguments.
With the conditions at the bottom of the ocean being somewhat optimal for fine wine and champagne storage, coupled with the frequency of these stories, one almost gets the feeling like they may have been planned.
People from around the world travel to Scotland in the hopes of catching a glimpse of ‘Nessie’. That doesn’t seem too likely to happen.
Notre-Dame’s structure and two towers have been saved from total destruction, but the damage is still extreme.
Photographer Margaret Bourke-White’s work helped shape the way that we saw the 20th century.
Let’s take a look into the story behind the “90-minute interstellar mixtape”, sent into space in the 70s, as a kind of mixtape for extraterrestrials.