In 1862, explorer José María Melgar y Serrano discovered a colossal stone sculpture at Tres Zapotes, Mexico — and the mystery of the Olmec heads was born. In the years since, other ancient stone heads ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the icy plains of Siberia once teemed with remarkable wildlife like mammoths, woolly rhinos, lions, bison, and wolves. In 2020, evidence of this incredible ecosystem ...

After reading about the coin hoard in Poland uncovered by a father and son, discover the story of the Defenestration of ...

Archaeologists at Corbridge Roman Town, located near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, England, have unearthed a rare knife handle depicting a Roman gladiator. The figure, representing a heavily ...

After murdering at least five women in 1888, Jack the Ripper seemed to disappear without a trace. He left few clues behind, and investigators have spent more than a century puzzling over his identity.

On Nov. 19, 1978, Theresa Marcoux and Mark Harnish were found dead on the side of a road in West Springfield, Massachusetts. They’d been shot to death in Harnish’s pickup truck, and their killer had ...

Aztec culture remains uniquely fascinating in part due to its various religious practices that tend toward the macabre, including human sacrifice and temples decorated with human skulls. But one of ...

Winters (in real life blond, but played by the red-haired Damian Lewis in the TV show), was born on January 21, 1918, in New ...

Ryan, a Democratic Representative from California, had made a name for himself as a maverick politician. He once had himself arrested and briefly incarcerated at Folsom State Prison while ...

At first, the marine ecologists surveying the waters near the Solomon Islands thought they’d found a shipwreck. Then they realized that the hulking shape beneath the water was something much more ...

When Was The Golden Age Of Hollywood? There is some debate about when the Golden Age began and ended. Some cite the 1915 release of D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation as the beginning of ...

On May 17, 2001, the last day of Alissa Turney’s junior year of high school, the teen mysteriously vanished from her Arizona home. Earlier that day, her stepfather, Michael Turney, had picked her up ...