Two-thirds of a century ago, Kathleen Wyman drove her brother to California to join the Navy. From there, he shipped out to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor.

In an Aug. 17 story about decades-old remains being identified through DNA, The Associated Press misidentified an institution. It is the National Maritime Center of Martinsburg, W.Va., not the National Marine...

Howard “Cliff” Enoch Jr. disappeared over what would become East Germany near the end of World War II, three months before his only son was born.

Howard “Cliff” Enoch Jr. disappeared over what would become East Germany near the end of World War II, three months before his only son was born.

Howard “Cliff” Enoch Jr. disappeared over what would become East Germany near the end of World War II, three months before his only son was born.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,900-year-old well-preserved chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Thursday.

Two New Zealand families have swapped ashes after an apparent mix-up at a funeral parlor saw one family bid farewell to a male stranger instead of their mother, a hospital said Monday.Mortuary staff at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton on North...

Mexican archaeologists have found the remains of what appear to be four U.S. soldiers who died in 1846 during the Mexican-American war, the government announced on Thursday.Experts said skull and bone measurements, as well as two half-dollar coins...

For more than six decades, the family of U.S. Army 1st Lt. Archibald Kelly had no way of being certain he was killed when his bomber smashed into a rocky cliff in Croatia in World War II.They didn’t know his bones lay under a makeshift cairn...

For more than six decades, the family of U.S. Army 1st Lt. Archibald Kelly had no way of being certain he was killed when his bomber smashed into a rocky cliff in Croatia in World War II.They didn’t know his bones lay under a makeshift cairn...