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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If there’s one thing you don’t expect to find inside an old cigar box, it’s an ancient Egyptian artifact. But that’s exactly what happened when archaeologist Abeer Eladany was sorting through the ...

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 ...