The object has archaeologists stumped. It’s made with bamboo, a plant that is not native to Switzerland (but was introduced ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city ...

The hoard features historical figures from the time period, such as William the Conqueror, Edward the Confessor, and Harold ...

Throughout the 17th century, Europe was repeatedly ravaged by war. The Thirty Years’ War, for instance, raged across Central Europe and claimed some 8 million lives. Towns across the region were ...

Linda Napolitano was a typical housewife living in Manhattan with her husband and two children. But everything changed on Nov. 30, 1989, when she claims three gray bipedal creatures abducted her from ...

On August 21, 1986, a catastrophic event now known as the Lake Nyos disaster unfolded at Lake Nyos in Cameroon. A mix of carbon dioxide and water droplets, previously trapped in the lake’s depths, ...

Dr. Charles Scudder came from a wealthy family and worked as a professor of pharmacology at Chicago’s Loyola University — a “good job” by his own definition. Described by those who knew him as ...

The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Türkiye is nothing more than ruins today. But in its heyday, it was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The first Greek temple ever to be constructed ...

On March 18, 1919, the streets of New Orleans were filled with music. People flooded into crowded jazz bars while makeshift jazz bands cropped up in homes across the city, frantically playing into the ...

From expensive tweed jackets to neatly pressed button-down shirts, these vintage photos show the lasting power of preppy fashion. Throughout the mid-to-late-20th century, a popular fashion and ...

From 1994 until 2004, serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis brutally murdered eight women in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, committing heinous acts of necrophilia, cannibalism, and dismemberment. He was so ...

The Zapotec people believed they knew where to find the underworld: beneath their feet in the ancient Mexican city of Mitla. The existence of caverns and chambers under the town — and under the Church ...