Throughout the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the early years of the Gilded Age, Thomas Nast used his political cartoons published in Harper's Weekly to satirize current events, expose corruption, and ...

Last year, a metal detectorist stumbled upon a tiny treasure in Leeds, England. While scouring a local field, they came across a cross-shaped pendant, which experts say dates back to the 8th century C ...

Hoping to sell an ancient Roman mosaic on the black market, a group of would-be thieves in Zile, Turkey livestreamed their illegal excavation — while displaying their location, the date, and one of ...

Caterpillars are remarkable creatures, but a particular species newly identified in the journal Science might just take the cake for strangeness. Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar species ...

Robert Maudsley committed his first murder in 1974, killing a man who showed him images of child sexual abuse. Maudsley soon turned himself in to the authorities, who sent him to a psychiatric ...

While attempting to contact the world’s most isolated Indigenous tribe, the Sentinelese, American evangelical Christian missionary John Allen Chau met a grisly fate. He traveled to North Sentinel ...

Prehistoric wooden spears found decades ago in Schöningen, Germany were once thought to be around 300,000 years old. It was thus believed that they were made by an early human ancestor known as Homo ...

LiveScience reports that a team of researchers analyzed ancient remains found at the Cooper’s Ferry archaeological site ...

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 ...

A team of researchers has seemingly located the wreck of the Koning Willem de Tweede, a Dutch merchant ship that was lost off the Australian coast in 1857. According to a new press release from the ...

During routine excavations ahead of the construction of a new student residence in Leuven, Belgium, archaeologists stumbled upon a spectacular find. Around 13 feet beneath the modern city street, they ...

Archaeologists in Osaka, Japan have unearthed a historic cemetery containing more than 1,500 bodies. According to Fox News, excavation surveys in Osaka’s Kita Ward began in 1991 — and the remarkable ...