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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Raubal, Heiner Hochegger, and Alexander, Louis, and Brian Stuart-Houston are all vastly different men. Peter was an engineer; Alexander was a social worker. Louis and Brian run a landscaping ...

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 ...

Amateur diver Dom Robinson has been exploring shipwrecks for more than three decades, and now he is the owner of one. Robinson was browsing Facebook Marketplace when he came across a listing for the ...

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 ...

The newly dated fossil suggests humans migrated out of Africa far earlier than we thought. When a broken skull was excavated from a limestone cliff in the Apidima cave in Greece in the 1970s, experts ...