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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.

English buccaneer Henry Every was the target of the first worldwide manhunt before he vanished.

This ichthyosaur specimen was discovered in the early 2000s in Lorraine, France. The species lived between 252 and 90 million years ago, and is famous for its fish-like shape.

Howard Carter become the world's most celebrated archaeologist when he led the team that discovered the 3,000-year-old tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922.

Sure, we all know that the F-22 and F-35 are the best fighter jets the U.S. Air force has and have some amazing stealth capabilities. But when we talk about pure combat records, nothing can beat the F-15. Nothing:  Despite entering service nearly a half-century ago, the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle remains one of the most […] The post F-15 (Photos): The Air Force’s Undefeated Fighter Jet appeared first on 19FortyFive .

Just like the stock market, the never-ending American horsepower war has had its ups and downs over the years, but records keep getting broken and the outlook remains bullish.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Library of Congress/Getty/Naval Historical Center Beginning in the summer of 1862, the CSS Alabama, a Confederate ship captained by Raphael Semmes, roamed the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans to find, capture, and burn Union Navy ships. In this endeavor, the Southern ship was wildly successful. Sailing 75,000 miles around the globe and back again, “that pirate Semmes,” as the newspapers called him, sent over 60 ships to the bottom of the ocean. Their precious cargos would never support the North’s military campaigns. As a last resort, Li [...]

What exactly is a designated marksman? You’ve likely seen the term designated marksmen or squad designated marksmen tossed around this website, military publications, and other forms of military media lately. You might see it shortened as DM or SDM. The rifles these guys and gals use, you may have also heard, are called DMRs or SDMRs… But what does […] The post Why A Designated Marksman Is Not a Sniper appeared first on 19FortyFive .

Not much is left of the two-masted wooden brig thought to be the Industry, a 65-foot-long whaler that foundered after a storm in 1836.

After the Second World War, dozens of Victorian and Georgian buildings were demolished in the capital. They included the famous Euston Arch (pictured above in 1954).

Last week archeologists discovered the wreck of Endurance, the vessel from Ernest Shackleton's fabled Antarctic expedition of over a century ago, nearly two miles below the surface of the icy Weddell Sea. Jane Pauley reports.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - A 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery containing at least 20 ornately decorated graves has been uncovered near the shoreline in the northern Gaza Strip, with the

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of the first wealthy Iron Age community in the North West of England - after unearthing their 2,000-year-old rubbish at a dig in Poulton, Cheshire.

A strange string of events led archaeologists to uncover an ancient treasure trove, dating to the late Roman period, in a river valley cave in northern Spain. And it all started with a badger. After heavy snows hit the Iberian Peninsula amidst Storm Filomena in the winter of 2021, one Grado resident, Roberto Garcia, accompanied […]

Sir Winston Churchill was the country's Prime Minister during World War II from 1940-1945 and then again from 1951-1995.

Archaeologists working on the HS2 route have discovered how an Iron Age village in Northamptonshire developed into a wealthy Roman trading town. Evidence found during a dig of the site near the village of Chipping Warden has shown how the settlement, believed to have been established in about 400 BC when it was made up […]

The giant ichthyosaur was found at the bottom of Rutland Water, in the Midlands, last February and experts spent 14 days excavating the giant skeleton before removing it in August last year.

The crew of the Endurance22 Expedition will voyage to Antarctica's Weddell Sea to find and film the wreck non-intrusively using underwater search robots.

The tracks - found on a beach near Penarth by walker Kerry Rees in 2020 - were examined by a team of experts from Liverpool John Moores University.