The octagonal-shaped tomb depicts tales with some very grim details, indicating that life definitely wasn't easy at the time.

During renovations at St. Andreas Church in Eisleben, workers uncovered 816 coins hidden inside a statue during the Thirty ...

Wild Bill Hickok died on August 2, 1876, in Deadwood, South Dakota, after he was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall. Wild Bill Hickok’s death during a poker game was a fitting end for a man ...

In the markets of Vietnam, researchers have identified a new species of giant isopod that astonishingly mirrors one of pop culture’s most iconic villains: Darth Vader. Named Bathynomus vaderi in honor ...

You never know what you might encounter during a casual stroll in Siberia. Local resident Pavel Efimov was walking along the Tirekhtyakh River in the Russian Republic of Sakha when he came across ...

Henry Hill’s death in June 2012 marked the end of one of America’s most compelling mob stories. His life inspired Goodfellas, one of the top gangster films of all time. The movie depicts Hill’s ...

Stunning medieval wall paintings inside France’s Angers Cathedral remained hidden for centuries. But now, for the first time, conservators from the University of Cambridge’s Hamilton Kerr Institute ...

In 2022, researchers excavating the site of an 18th-century hospital in Orléans, France, uncovered a Roman necropolis containing more than 60 graves. Some of the burials included “curse tablets,” ...

In the 1350s, a knight in Lirey, France came into possession of a peculiar object. There is no record where he found it, who he got it from, or where it originally came from. But it was, the knight ...

On a spring day in 2003, Rachel Corrie set out with a mission in mind. Clutching a bullhorn and wearing an orange jacket, she joined several other activists in the Gaza Strip to protest the Israeli ...

The Hope Diamond is not named because it inspires hope. Instead, the famous gemstone was named after a British gem collector. And the diamond itself has a tumultuous history full of death, tragedy, ...