Over a century ago, a German archaeologist uncovered a sprawling ancient site in Cyprus, a temple known as the “Sanctuary of Apollo” that was filled with towering statues. However, he reburied the ...

The remains of an entire ancient Roman town have been discovered close to a highway in southeast England. Construction workers were preparing to build more than a hundred new houses when they came ...

After the Dutch merchant ship Batavia wrecked near Australia in 1629, a mutiny prompted an all-out war that eventually left some 200 people dead. On October 29, 1628, the Dutch East India Company ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient Egyptians began worshipping Hathor, a powerful goddess associated with love, fertility, and motherhood. Often depicted with a cow’s head or as a woman adorned with cow ...

In 2018, a construction project in the small village of Knockaird on Scotland’s Isle of Lewis revealed the presence of an underground stone chamber known as a “souterrain” beneath the property of a ...

After Jesus Christ was crucified outside the city of Jerusalem, the Gospel of John states that his body was placed in “a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.” But where was this tomb? Where ...

Early one morning in April 2025, a Turkish man named Osman Erim went fishing at Lake Iznik with some friends. After casting his net, Erim made the discovery of a lifetime. There, among the fish he’d ...

While excavating the site of a 2,800-year-old massacre in present-day Iran, archaeologists were surprised to come upon a pair of intertwined skeletons. The skeletons seemed to have died while sharing ...

The cave is believed to have been in use by the Chumash people between 1600 and 1800, and evidently served as a space in which they could trip on the flower Datura wrightii. A new study has found that ...

Marie-Thérèse, Louis-Joseph, Louis-Charles, and Sophie were the four children of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI of France — but despite their initial wealth and power, only one of them survived ...

The S.K. Pierce Mansion, one of the "most haunted" homes in Massachusetts, was listed for sale for $1.2 million in April 2025 ...

Peter Raubal, Heiner Hochegger, and Alexander, Louis, and Brian Stuart-Houston are all vastly different men. Peter was an engineer; Alexander was a social worker. Louis and Brian run a landscaping ...