On August 22, 2002, at just 21 years old, Michelle Knight vanished from the streets of Cleveland, Ohio. For about 11 years, Knight was held captive in the home of her kidnapper Ariel Castro, along ...

In 1987, the British tabloid The Sun published a shocking story. Instead of juicy drama about Princess Diana’s troubled marriage, the public received the disturbing news that Nerissa and Katherine ...

As Napoleon Bonaparte consolidated his power in France in 1802, he commissioned the master armorer at the state armory in Versailles to make him a sword. This magnificent blade, which Napoleon kept by ...

After years of examining a bounty of bones discovered by an amateur fossil hunter on a beach in England, paleontologists have concluded that the fossils belonged to a previously unknown species of ...

Although it was not always obvious, the downfall of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany was a long time coming. The reasons for this were Hitler's aggressive expansionist policies and the ideology of the Nazi ...

The National Gallery in London has just purchased a striking 16th-century painting for $22 million. That alone isn’t all that unusual. But the painting itself certainly is, as is the fact that no one ...

Over a century ago, a German archaeologist uncovered a sprawling ancient site in Cyprus, a temple known as the “Sanctuary of Apollo” that was filled with towering statues. However, he reburied the ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient Egyptians began worshipping Hathor, a powerful goddess associated with love, fertility, and motherhood. Often depicted with a cow’s head or as a woman adorned with cow ...

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 ...

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 ...