Archaeologists excavating Turkey’s ancient ruins of Aspendos have uncovered a 2,400-year-old grave that may belong to a pro wrestler or other variety of athlete that entertained the masses during the ...

In 1994, three prisoners in a Russian penal colony devised a plan. They were being held in the punishment and isolation unit of a penal colony, UB-14/9, in Rubtsovsk, Russia. Life in the colony was ...

Archaeologists excavating a medieval chapel in the village of Sandur on the island of Sandoy found a runestone with an Old ...

The Bible contains four depictions of the arrest of Jesus. Only one of them features a naked man — and for centuries, scholars have been trying to figure out why. As Jesus is arrested in the Garden of ...

Many ancient civilizations used chariots on the battlefield for centuries, but they became obsolete around 300 B.C.E.

Archaeologists excavating Hohle Fels Cave in southern Germany found two prehistoric bird figurines that were carved from ...

In 2017, Phillip Cullen was convicted of capturing and killing large blue butterflies, which are a protected species in Great ...

During World War I, nurses began using Cellucotton bandages as menstrual products, leading to the invention of the Kotex maxi ...

Excavations ahead of a road improvement project near Cheltenham revealed a 1,600-year-old nail cleaner with a copper phallus ...

Scientists identified a new species, Demogorgonichthys arcanus, in the waters beneath the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal ...

After getting her start as a dancer and an actress, Leni Riefenstahl began directing films in the early 1930s. And when she crossed paths with Adolf Hitler, he hand-picked Riefenstahl to document his ...

Researchers discovered that these 2,000-year-old cliff paintings in southern China were made with blood from women who'd just given birth.