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 ...

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 ...

The Vikings are not only known for their prowess in war but also their penchant for drinking — with a particular fondness for beer and mead. The latest archaeology discovery reinforces the latter ...

Cleopatra Selene II had a turbulent life from the beginning. Born to Cleopatra and Mark Antony amid their alliance following Julius Caesar’s assassination, Cleopatra Selene II entered the world during ...

For nearly a century, scientists have believed that a skull discovered in the ancient Turkish city of Ephesus belonged to Cleopatra’s half-sister Arsinoë IV. Unearthed in 1929 at a magnificent ...

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, ...

“You know, it’s the saddest thing but it seems like everybody my mother ever gets close to dies,” Velma Barfield’s son Ronnie Burke once said, according to the Toronto Sun. “How could the good Lord ...

Jordan Belfort, the infamous Wolf of Wall Street, surely needs no introduction at this point. From serving time in prison for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars to writing a ...

At high tide, it looks like the Pacific Ocean is draining into a circular hole in the middle of Cape Perpetua, just south of Yachats, Oregon. While its dramatic appearance has earned it nicknames such ...

Between 1875 and 1883, an outlaw named Black Bart committed at least 28 stagecoach robberies along the West Coast — and his polite demeanor and habit of leaving clever poems at the scenes of his ...