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 ...

Ans van Dijk was one of the Nazis’ most notorious collaborators during World War II. A Dutch Jewish woman, she posed as a member of the resistance and offered to help Jews find hiding places and ...

Augusta Raurica is one of the most important ancient Roman sites in Switzerland. Located just north of the Alps, it’s an active archaeological site as well as the home of a museum that holds more than ...

The Gruesome Story Of Takahiro Shiraishi, Japan’s ‘Twitter Killer’ Who Found His Victims Online ...

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 newly dated fossil suggests humans migrated out of Africa far earlier than we thought. When a broken skull was excavated from a limestone cliff in the Apidima cave in Greece in the 1970s, experts ...

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 ...