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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American whaling ship Essex is rammed by a sperm whale during a hunt and sinks in the South Pacific Ocean. Though all 20 men aboard initially survived, they suffered from starvation and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On May 15, 2010, 16-year-old Kalief Browder was arrested in the Bronx, New York for allegedly stealing a backpack. Police couldn’t find the backpack or any of its contents on Kalief, and the teen ...

Roughly 80 hours before British businessman Richard William Smith perished in the sinking of the Titanic, he asked a friend to send a postcard for him. Smith’s postcard arrived at its destination, ...

Leicester Cathedral, an English church with a history stretching back hundreds of years, has become the focus of a groundbreaking archaeological discovery first made in 2022. While excavating the ...

During the Manson murders, Charles Manson's followers gruesomely killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles on August 9 and 10, 1969. The Manson murders of 1969 brought a nation ...