Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...

Workers restoring the former house of Russian merchant Averky Kirillov uncovered a trove of silver coins from the Time of ...

When Mauna Loa volcano erupted in November 1935 and threatened the local water supply, officials dropped bombs to divert the ...

Known as "Il Principe," a boy unearthed in northern Italy's Arene Candide Cave in 1942 was killed by a bear nearly 28,000 ...

For three years, Hannah Upp lived peacefully on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She loved her work, and was loved by ...

After using the "Relative Erosion Method" to uncover how old the Great Pyramid of Giza is, Alberto Donini suggests it may date to 22916 B.C.E.

Though police only connected him to three murders, Joseph Roy Metheny claimed to have slaughtered a total of 13 victims, some of whom he allegedly turned into patties that he sold to unwitting ...

It was a clash between ancient rulers that reverberated through history. In 530 B.C.E., a warrior queen met the king of Persia in battle. And only one walked away. By any measure, the Persians should ...

“Oh, you’re just blowing smoke up my ass,” is something you might hear someone say when they think you’re just telling them what they want to hear. But in 18th-century England, blowing smoke up your ...

An 18th-century French showman, Tarrare could eat enough to feed 15 people and swallow cats whole — but his stomach was never satisfied. They found Tarrare in a gutter, shoveling fistfuls of garbage ...

In March 1981, Marianne Bachmeier opened fire in a crowded courtroom and killed Klaus Grabowski — the man on trial for murdering her 7-year-old daughter. On March 6, 1981, Marianne Bachmeier opened ...

Gunned down in Medellín on December 2, 1993, "The King of Cocaine" allegedly was shot to death by Colombian police. But who really killed Pablo Escobar? “I would rather have a grave in Colombia than a ...