The discovery was made near the remains of a mummified adult lion, which was found underneath the Saqqara necropolis in 2004.

Archaeologists found the remains of three children under the age of four alongside the artifact — suggesting that it was once used for child sacrifice. Tikal, an ancient city-state deep in the jungle ...

At first, April 19, 1995 seemed like a normal day at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Hundreds of federal employees and contract workers entered their offices in the ...

What Caused The Dust Bowl? While it would be unfair to place the blame entirely on farmers in the 1920s, they certainly played a large role in creating the Dust Bowl. In the decades leading up to the ...

Two youths were metal detecting in Houthalen-Helchteren when they uncovered a collection of dangerous WW2-era weapons.

When the Jascon-4 tugboat overturned off the Nigerian coast in May 2013, it made headlines around the world. Most assumed there were no survivors — until three days later, when the ship’s cook ...

Whether it was the Aroostook War, the Klondike gold rush, or the infamous Pig War, the U.S. and Canada have had their share of contentious and bizarre border disputes over the last two centuries. In ...

When archaeologists recently dug inside and around the historic Saint Bavo’s cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, they found a grisly sight: a wall made out of human bones. According to The Brussels Times, ...

Throat lacerations, perforated organs, and pierced hearts are just some of the complications that performers can suffer when swallowing swords, but despite these dangers, only 29 deaths from this ...

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln seemed to be in good spirits. The Civil War was ending, his son had just returned home from the army, and he and his wife Mary had plans to see a play that ...

On April 6, 1967, a 20-year-old U.S. Navy sailor named Doug Hegdahl was swept overboard in the Gulf of Tonkin. There, he was picked up by a fishing boat and turned over to North Vietnamese forces, who ...